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  1. The Supreme Court Takes a Stance on Fugitive Slavery and States Rights
    date 1842map YORK, Pennsylvaniatags Prigg v Pennsylvania, federal power, state rights, Fugitive Slave Act, Civil War

    In 1837, attorney Edward Prigg was commissioned on behalf of Margaret Ashmore to recapture and bring Margaret Morgan from Pennsylvania back to Maryland. Morgan had lived in virtual freedom, but was never formally emancipated by the Ashmore family. In accordance with Pennsylvania’s Law of 1826, Prigg took Morgan before a county justice for a hearing at which the justice declined cognizance of the...

  2. I Ran to the Woods: The Life of William Henry Singleton
    date 1835 to 1860map CRAVEN, North Carolinatags African-Americans, Civil War, Slavery

    Born August 10, 1835 in Newbern, North Carolina, William Henry Singleton lived anything but an ordinary life. He was born unto a slave woman by the name of Lettis Singleton and a white man, his master John Singleton’s brother. The Singleton’s owned the largest Plantation in Craven County North Carolina and were a family of high social standing in the community. Having William around created a great...

  3. Governor Curtin Outlines Plan for Continuing Conscription
    date October 25, 1862map SCHUYLKILL, Pennsylvaniatags Riots, Immigration, Law, Civil War

    On October 25, 1862, Pennsylvania governor A.G. Curtin submitted his views and worries on the recent riots that had occurred in Schuylkill County to Secretary of War, E.M. Stanton. He described several scenarios for upholding the draft in the wake of these rioting men without jailing or punishing them. He wrote in the letter, “I think you would get the men more easily than by the use of force. Men...

  4. History of Yellow Fever
    date November, 1875 to December, 1900map PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvaniatags Yellow Fever, Civil War

    The essay, “The History of Yellow Fever”, was written by Philip S. Hench, for the purpose of portraying the history, cause, and tragedies that people experienced when infected with the disease. It also contained information for Americans explaining how Yellow Fever originated and what measures the government took to prevent the disease from resurfacing in later years. The article was written after...

  5. Stained-Glass Sally: The Memorializing of Captain Sally Tompkins
    date September 10, 1961map Henrico, Virginiatags Reconstruction, Civil War, Women, Medicine/Health

    With the Angel of Mercy to guide and guard her, Captain Sally Tompkins gazes into the congregation of Saint James Episcopal Church located in Richmond, Virginia.  This stained-glass window was installed on September 10, 1961 to honor Captain Tompkins for her extraordinary service to the Confederacy during the Civil War.  The window features Captain Tompkins dressed in a conservative purple dress...

  6. Captain Sally Tompkins Defends Top Civil War Hospital
    date June 9, 1864map HENRICO, Virginiatags Medicine/Health, Health/Death, Science/Technology, Civil War, Women

    Filling a pressing need for medical services, Sally Tompkins established a hospital after the First Battle of Bull Run that became the best hospital during the Civil War.  Running the hospital was not always easy; Tompkins faced pressure from many people to close down the hospital.  In June of 1864, Dr. Carrington, an inspector of hospitals for the South, filed an order to have the Robertson Hospital...

  7. CSS Shenandoah Boards Dutch Vessel in the Pacific
    date March 30, 1864map Pacific, Outside UStags War, Civil War

    On March 30, 1865 a vessel, thought to be the CSS Shenandoah, overtook and boarded the Hawaiian ship Pfiel, the Dutch captain reported the incident to Union authorities upon its arrival in San Francisco.  The captain wrote “On the 30th of March, latitude 3° 53’ N. longitude 167° E. at 6 P.M., [my ship] was brought to under a gun from a vessel of war; hove to, and was soon boarded by a boat,...

  8. CSS Tennessee, Confederate Ironclad Proves itself at Mobile Bay
    date August 5, 1864map MOBILE, Alabamatags United States Navy, Confederate Navy, War, Civil War

    On the morning of August 5, 1864, Admiral David Farragut led a fleet of eighteen warships into Alabama’s Mobile Bay. Since the fall of New Orleans in April 1862, Mobile had become the major Confederate port in the Gulf of Mexico, responsible for bringing in blockade runners carrying supplies from Havana.  The result of Mobile’s rise in importance to Confederacy was a rise in the priority of its...

  9. Sumner Takes Command of The Department of The Pacific
    date March 22, 1861 to April 28, 1861map SAN FRANCISCO, Californiatags War, Civil War, Military, Politics

    With hostilities breaking out between Confederate and Union forces in the east, a secessionist uprising in California was feared.  In command of the U.S. Army’s Department of The Pacific, was Col. Albert S. Johnston; an adopted Texan with questionable loyalties. Believing that Johnston posed a risk to Union control in California, General Winfield Scott dispatched Brigadier General E. V. Sumner to...

  10. Wheeler's Cavalry Checks Foster's Position in Tennessee
    date December 3, 1863map CLAIBORNE, Tennesseetags War, Civil War

    In December of 1863 in Tennessee, as William T. Sherman marched a column of troops to relieve men who were believed to be in peril in Knoxville, J.G. Foster was cut off from Sherman by a division of Confederate cavalry under General Joseph Wheeler. Unable to move, Foster telegraphed Major General Gordon Granger, Commander of the Army of Kentucky and the man responsible for running cavalry operations...

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