Episodes Around: 18860713 to 18860714

  1. Queen City Chautauqua Circle
    date 1885 to 1887map PULASKI, Missouritags Arts/Leisure, Education, Politics, Women

    The Queen City Chautauqua Circle was first formed in 1883 for intellectual discussion and learning in Springfield, Missouri. Its female members, like Mrs. O. A. Parish, directed and managed the self-proclaimed C.L.S.C. diligently and passionately until 1887, only to be replaced thereafter by another intellectual group with many of the same members, The Society of Friends Council. Mrs. O. A. Parish,...

  2. Ulysses S. Grant Pens His Memoirs
    date 1885 to 1886map ALLEGANY, New Yorktags Civil War, historical memory

    An inquirer once asked Grant about meeting General Lee at Appomattox: "What were your thoughts, General, in that sublime moment when you knew that at least Lee would surrender, and the heavens of your glory where about to open?" Grant's only answer to that was: "My dirty boots and wearing no sword." General Lee was dressed in a new uniform and sword by his side for the occasion, and Grant was...

  3. The Education of African Americans After the Civil War
    date 1886map ALBEMARLE, Virginiatags African-Americans, Economy, Education, Health/Death, Law, Politics, Race-Relations

    "Our crops are poor on account of too much wet in the summer which prevented us from working with them," John McClure, a resident of Albemarle County, wrote to his aunt and uncle. He went on to explain that "with what little (crops) we have to sell won't bring enough to pay for the expense of raising it." Other such maladies that McClure noted were that the livestock was not selling for a...

  4. They Elope
    date March 18, 1886 to 1886map PITTSYLVANIA, Virginiatags Church/Religious-Activity, Women

    Miss Lizzie D. Hutter was everything a southern, Virginia belle should be. She was accomplished, beautiful, from a good family, and very popular in the highest of social circles. She was known as a poetically perfect and symmetrically beautiful girl. She was the eldest daughter of the superintendent of the Houston mines, and both her mother's and father's side were distinguished families...

  5. Convict Standoff
    date July 13, 1886 to July 14, 1886map DADE, Georgiatags African-Americans, Crime/Violence, Economy, Government, Law, Race-Relations

    It was already hot. As the Superintendent lined the convicts up to march back to the Dade County coal mines for another day of exhausting labor, one group refused to move. At the head of a long line of men chained together, the leader of the rebellion spoke up to Colonel Tower. He said that he and all the rest of the men from his stockade refused to work another day in the heat at their awful work....