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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...

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...

SCWL's latest for Emerging Civil War

https://emergingcivilwar.com/2022/02/28/the-lost-1890-census-and-the-surviving-special-schedule/

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...

"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...

Asbury Haynes and the burial of the Unknown Soldier

Asbury Haynes wearing the overcoat he wore in the procession 100 years ago today, November 11, 1921, an unknown American soldier killed...

A Civil War vet with a Gat

A CIVIL WAR VET WITH A GAT George Camp was not the only Civil War veteran to be arrested for illegally discharging a firearm in Seattle,...

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