Keeping Warm in a Civil War Encampment
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Staying warm took ingenuity--including a contraption called a Crimean Oven.
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Coming Up from Fredericksburg
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Things were relatively quite in Alexandria in December 1862. Then the wounded started coming up from Fredericksburg by the boat-ful.
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Bull Run Tourists: Then and Now
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We (and in 1863, Julia Wilbur) visited Bull Run, fellow battlefield tourists.
Read MoreThanksgiving in Alexandria, 1862
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In 1861, Julia Wilbur celebrated Thanksiving quietly in New York State. The following year was a different story.
Read MoreL'Ouverture Hospital and My 4.5 Minutes of Fame
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I took part in a November 19 ceremony to inaugurate a historical marker at the location of L'Ouverture Hospital in Alexandria.
Read MoreWalking Tour: Women of Civil War Alexandria
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I (and Julia Wilbur, in spirit) tagged along on a National Women's History Museum walking tour of Alexandria Civil War women.
Read MoreMosby and Grant: A Post-War Relationship
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The post-war connections between John Singleton Mosby and Ulysses S. Grant, according to a recent book by David Goetz.
Read MoreDoes Your Next (or First) Book Lie Here?
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Does your next (or first) book lie behind this door? Learn a bit about the Manuscript Division at the Library of Congress.
Read MoreStory of a Photograph
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Collector and researcher Charles Joyce came upon a Civil War photograph of 12 men. Individually and collectively, they have much to tell us today.
Read MoreReconciliation? Not Exactly
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Post-War reconciliation? Historian Caroline Janney offers a different view.
Read MoreThe Alexanders of Alexandria
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The Alexander family? The city on the Nile? No one is 100% sure how Alexandria, Virginia, got its name.
Read MoreArlandria: Then and (Almost) Now
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The story of Arlandria, from rural outpost to diverse urban neighborhood, presented by University of Mary Washington professor Krystyn Moon.
Read MoreSeptember 24, 2016 & 1866, Washington, DC
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Washington, DC, September 24, 2016--opening of African American History Museum and Library of Congress Book Festival. September 24, 1866--visits to Andrew Johnson and a cure for a "secret disease"
Read MoreFemale Soldiers of the Civil War
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A ceremony at Arlington Cemetery honored female soldiers of the Civil War--women who hid their identities and fought side-by-side with men.
Read MoreFinding Descendants from Alexandria's Contraband and Freedmen Cemetery
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Char McCargo Bah explained how she found descendants from among more than 1,750 people buried in Alexandria's Contraband and Freedmen Cemetery--who can now celebrate their ancestors, many of whom escaped slavery.
Read More"In Their Footsteps": Women's Suffrage in Washington, DC
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On a Washington walking tour that highlights women's suffrage--and how Julia Wilbur fit into some of the struggles.
Read MoreAppomattox Statue, Then and Now
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The Confederate veteran has stood on Alexandria's main north-south thoroughfare for more than 100 years. Once grass grew between the cobblestones at his feet.
Read MoreSame Blog, New Site
/I began this blog at the end of 2014 on a Wordpress site. Thanks to all who have read and commented on it.
Now, I'll be blogging. here. You can still let me know if you want a notification when I've added a new post, and I still welcome your comments.