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Special Edition: Wild Bill (March 5, 1865)
On March 5, 1865, the day after second Lincoln’s Inauguration, John Wilkes Booth scrawled a short poem onto an envelope in his room in at the Na…
Oct 31, 2018
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Donald C. Cartmell
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Special Edition: Booth's Poem (March 5, 1865)
One of the more curious relics belonging to John Wilkes Booth, is a brief poem he wrote on the reverse of an envelope on March 5th, 1865. Now, i…
Oct 31, 2018
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Donald C. Cartmell
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Special Edition: Crossing the Border (March 8, 1865)
On March 8, 1865 William Tecumseh Sherman’s army crossed the border into Richmond County, North Carolina. Lieutenant-Colonel George Ward Nichols…
Oct 18, 2018
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Donald C. Cartmell
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Special Edition: Domestic Tranquility (March 23, 1865)
Domestic Tranquility
Oct 11, 2018
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Donald C. Cartmell
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Special Edition: Sherman burns Columbia (March 18, 1865)
The following comes from the March 18, 1865, issue of The Prescott Journal. “Sherman’s army entered Columbia in the afternoon. They soon commenced…
Oct 9, 2018
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Special Edition: Three Brothers from Winchester (April 24, 1865)
Three Brothers from Winchester In 1861, Mordecai B. Cartmell of Round Hill, Virginia, could trace the lineage of his family back to the mid-1600…
Sep 6, 2018
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