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Tag Archives: Edward Dickinson Baker
survivors still
After the Civil War the Grand Army of the Republic (GAR) was founded in 1866 as a fraternal organization for Union veterans. According to a web page at the University of Mississippi the Fifty-third National (GAR) Encampment took place September … Continue reading
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Tagged 71st Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment (“First California Regiment”), Battle of Gettysburg, Battle of Little Bighorn, Cold Harbor, Edward Dickinson Baker, George Armstrong Custer, Grand Army of the Republic, Isaac "Ike" E. Tibben, Philadelphia (California) Brigade
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the serious, the somber, the sullen …
the South. Interested in reading a 115 stanza poem about Abraham Lincoln? You can browse on over to Project Gutenberg and delve into The Atlantic Monthly, VOL. XVI.—OCTOBER, 1865.—NO. XCVI.. Although I did not read it all, one part of … Continue reading
D—-d Hessians!
An editorial from the October 26, 1861 edition of the Richmond Daily Dispatch: Who are we fighting? –The term “Yankee” ought no longer to be applied to the enemy. Such a term is not just to the fighting men on … Continue reading
