Civil War and Reconstruction (Fall 2007)

Juniata College
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African-Americans Arts/Leisure Crime/Violence Economy Education Government Health/Death Migration/Transportation Native-Americans Politics Race-Relations Science/Technology Slavery War Women

Episodes

  1. Growth or Recession? The Liberties Associated with African Americans in Antebellum Philadelphia
    date 1835 to 1839map PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvaniatags African-Americans, Economy, Education, Slavery

    Benjamin C. Bacon, a writer for "The Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery" published a statistical pamphlet in 1859 reflecting African American advancements in the nation's first capital, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He acquired the statistics by examining the number of blacks associated with particular institutions. Bacon hoped to illustrate his belief that African Americans,...

  2. Ambush of Round Mountain
    date November 19, 1861map Unorganized, Oklahomatags Crime/Violence, Migration/Transportation, Native-Americans, Politics, Race-Relations, Slavery, War

    Many Indians disagreed to Secession, but not necessarily agree to abolition, either. Families owned slaves and continued to throughout the Civil War. Opoethleyohola, a Muscogee Creek Chief also known as Gouge, wished to remain neutral. Many other neutral Creeks followed him North of Indian Territory, which is now Oklahoma. Colonel Douglas H. Cooper had been persuaded that 'Gouge' was a threat and had...

  3. The Capture of the Steamship J. R. Williams
    date June 15, 1864map Unorganized, Oklahomatags Crime/Violence, Native-Americans, Science/Technology, War

    June 15, 1864, the USA Quartermaster Capt. Greene Durbin sent a "steam ferry boat" with supplies to Fort Gibson; Messrs. McDonald and Fuller, contractors of the Cherokee Nation included "Indian goods" to be distributed amongst those Indians there. They furnished it with military protection of one sergeant and twenty-four privates "under the command of Second Lieut. Horace A. B. Cook," Comp. K, Twelfth...

  4. Pulaski Riot and Murders: Evidence of the KKK
    date January 11, 1868map GILES, Tennesseetags African-Americans, Crime/Violence, Race-Relations

    On January 11, 1868 Sub. Asst. Comr. Michael Walsh, a member of the Bureau of Refugees, Freedman, and Abandoned Lands, wrote a letter to his superiors discussing a recent riot in Pulaski, Tennessee. Walsh traveled to Tennessee on January the Ninth to investigate the riot, murder, and wounding of several men. He ultimately concluded that on January 7, 1868 a group of white men, formal Members...

  5. The Day in the Life of a Union Prisoner of War: Disease and Deprivation
    date 1865map Washington City, District of Columbiatags Crime/Violence, Government, Health/Death, War

    The United States Sanitary Commission conducted a series of interviews following the conclusion of the Civil War. The Commission focused on the details of Union soldier's imprisonment during their service. The soldiers gave testimony as to their experience as a prisoner of war. The compilation of accounts details the suffering and privations of different soldiers both commissioned and non-commissioned...

  6. Still Life in Camp: Union Soldiers Waiting for Action
    date February 16, 1863 to March 17, 1863map RAPPAHANNOCK, Virginiatags Arts/Leisure, War

    Life as a Civil War soldier involved fighting and immense amounts of sitting and waiting. Soldiers from both sides of the war wrote letters home to loved ones describing the daily events and occurrences in camp life. Life as a soldier required patience. Many soldiers recounted the long periods of time spent sitting in camp waiting for their chance to fight. At camps soldiers could actually...

  7. Saving Grace: Creation of the United States Ambulance Service
    date August 2, 1862map CHARLES CITY, Virginiatags Health/Death, War

    Under the orders of General McClellan, the Army of the Potomac was the first section of the Union Army to derive benefits from an organized ambulance system. On August 2, 1862 General McClellan issued General Order No. 147 near Harrison Landing, Virginia. This order set up regulations within the Army of the Potomac for the creation, organization, and management of an ambulance train system....

  8. Civil War Christmas Memory
    date December 25, 1861 to November 10, 1937map RAPPAHANNOCK, Virginiatags Arts/Leisure, War, Women

    During the Civil War, holidays and festivities did not enshroud the lives of families and soldiers throughout America. Soldiers usually sat in camp waiting for action as the winter months did not involve tremendous amounts of fighting. Second Lieutenant Robert Gould Shaw wrote home many times to his mother but also on Christmas Day 1861. His description of camp life and the lack of festivities...

  9. Argues for a Racially Mixed America
    date 1865map Washington City, District of Columbiatags African-Americans, Race-Relations, War

    Miscegenation stirred the pot in the American courts for much of the nineteenth century. According to historian Warren Sollors, in 1727 a white woman abandoned her husband because she fell in love with a black man. As a result, laws in 1741 called attention to the interracial marriage of whites and blacks in America. A fine of fifty pounds was to be paid in addition to children of these marriages to...

  10. Pauline Cushman Gains Trust of the Rebels: An Episode from Her Life
    date 1862map JEFFERSON, Kentuckytags Crime/Violence, Race-Relations, War, Women

    Pauline Cushman was born Harriet Wood in the South, on June 10, 1833. Living the beginning of her life in New Orleans, she eventually moved with her family to northern Michigan where she first discovered her love of the theatre. By the age of eighteen she moved to New York to try her luck at being an actress and stage performer. In homage to Charlotte Cushman, her favorite performer, Harriet legally...

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