The Wandering Ghost of the Lost Cause
A searing commentary on Jefferson Davis appeared in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer newspaper, June 1, 1893. This was part of a piece...
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- Mar 17, 2022
- 7 min
The Parson and the Lieutenant, Henry Risley & William Rumsey - Battery A 1st IL Light Artillery
The Parson and the Lieutenant, Henry Risley and William Rumsey - Battery A 1st Illinois Light Artillery The story of a pair of Illinois...
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Civil War Seattle
- Mar 15, 2022
- 2 min
The last man to join the G.A.R. in Seattle
By August 1942, Seattle’s Grand Army of the Republic membership was down to just 2 men. Daniel Reams and Hiram Gale were all that...
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Civil War Seattle
- Mar 15, 2022
- 3 min
Hundreds of Civil War veterans visit the USS Iowa in Bremerton in 1899
The June 1899 annual department encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic was one of the largest in the department of Washington and...
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Civil War Seattle
- Mar 15, 2022
- 1 min
General Gibbon As Ruler Of Seattle
Here is an interesting headline that was part of General John Gibbon’s obituary in a February 1896 Seattle P.I. newspaper. Best known for...
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Civil War Seattle
- Mar 15, 2022
- 1 min
A Young Woman in Washington State Upholds the Legacy of Union Army Veterans in 1914
SCWL piece for Emerging Civil War" https://emergingcivilwar.com/2021/09/22/a-young-woman-in-washington-state-upholds-the-legacy-of-union...
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Civil War Seattle
- Mar 15, 2022
- 1 min
Seattle Civil War vet witnessed 12 great grandchildren enlist in WWII
December 8, 2021 marked the 80th anniversary of the United States' formal entry into World War II. Remarkably, in 1941, there were...
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Civil War Seattle
- Mar 15, 2022
- 1 min
An uncommon legacy - Seattle Civil War Veteran saw a great-granddaughter become an officer in WWII
This is the Seattle gravesite of Catherine M. Henry at Evergreen cemetery. Miss Henry was the great-granddaughter of Seattle Civil War...
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Civil War Seattle
- Mar 15, 2022
- 1 min
John F Reynolds -"The Romantic Soldier"
On August 10th,1893, The Yakima Herald published an article on the life story of General John F Reynolds from the Associated Press. While...
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Civil War Seattle
- Mar 15, 2022
- 1 min
"War Relics Go to Scrap Heap"
Two young ladies from Seattle's Franklin High School, Jean Grasser (left) and Lugenia Whitehouse (right), showing a Civil War musket and...
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Civil War Seattle
- Mar 15, 2022
- 1 min
"I wouldn't be in favor"
January 4th, 1941, Seattle Civil War veteran Rustan O. Reed celebrated his 94th birthday. On the occasion, he offered some thoughts on...
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Civil War Seattle
- Mar 15, 2022
- 2 min
---An Old Wound Opened---
The Confederate battle flag, to put it bluntly, was generally not welcomed by Union veterans of the Civil War. While great strides had...
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Civil War Seattle
- Mar 15, 2022
- 5 min
“We Have No Use For Their Kind”
Despite the turmoil of a nation embroiled in a Civil War, the traffic of emigrants moving westward on the Oregon Trail remained high. An...
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Civil War Seattle
- Mar 15, 2022
- 1 min
Lincoln's Birthday becomes a holiday in Washington State in 1895
On February 12, 1895 Washington State became the second state, following Illinois, to recognize Abraham Lincoln’s birthday as a legal...
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Civil War Seattle
- Mar 15, 2022
- 5 min
Benjamin Best - A Bellevue Civil War veteran with a tragic ending
The life of Benjamin Best is an interesting one to say the very least. It is filled with remarkable details, many mysteries and a sad and...
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Civil War Seattle
- Mar 15, 2022
- 2 min
Seattle's Confederate Olympic Gold Medalist
***The only Civil War soldier to win Olympic Gold*** Seattle's Will H. Thompson was the only man to have fought in the Civil War and win...
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Civil War Seattle
- Mar 15, 2022
- 1 min
Lincoln's Birthday, Seattle 1921
101 years ago, on this very same evening, the Union Civil War veterans of the John F Miller post Grand Army of the Republic and the women...
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Civil War Seattle
- Mar 15, 2022
- 1 min
SCWL's latest for Emerging Civil War
https://emergingcivilwar.com/2022/02/28/the-lost-1890-census-and-the-surviving-special-schedule/
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Civil War Seattle
- Mar 15, 2022
- 2 min
A Seattle talk that “carried the boys back some thirty years”
—March 7, 1893 in Seattle— On the evening of March 7, 1893, the men of Seattle’s John F Miller post of the Grand Army of the Republic met...
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Civil War Seattle
- Mar 15, 2022
- 3 min
"Gleeful As A Band Of Children"- Civil War veterans’ Christmas at the Orting Soldiers’ Home
"Gleeful As A Band Of Children" - Civil War veterans’ Christmas at the Orting Soldiers’ Home - In the early 1900’s, Washington State...
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