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Fiends and Bathing Beauties
100 years ago today in Seattle. April 8, 1924: Summer arrived in Seattle on a pleasant Tuesday, April 8th, 1924, according to Seattle...

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Apr 8, 20243 min read
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Captured by Forrest - Seattle's Clement Phelps of Company B 81st Illinois Infantry
Clement Phelps (1839-1914) Mount Pleasant Cemetery Seattle WA Pictured is the grave of Clement Phelps in Seattle's historic Mount...

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Jun 10, 20222 min read
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Seattle's first Memorial Day - 1879
In 1878, the nation's leading organization of Union veterans of the Civil War, the Grand Army of the Republic, was established for the...

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May 30, 20222 min read
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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 23, 20221 min read
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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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Mar 15, 20222 min read
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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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Mar 15, 20221 min read
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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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Mar 15, 20221 min read
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"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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Mar 15, 20221 min read
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"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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Mar 15, 20221 min read
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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...

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Mar 15, 20222 min read
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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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Mar 15, 20221 min read
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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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Mar 15, 20221 min read
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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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Mar 15, 20222 min read
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"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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Mar 15, 20223 min read
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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...

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Mar 15, 20225 min read
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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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Mar 15, 20222 min read
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