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The Battle of Monocacy- July 9, 1864
The Battle of Monocacy on July 9, 1864 in Frederick County, Maryland became known as “The battle that saved Washington” as it gave supporting Union troops more time to fill the area and defend the...
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Fort Stevens: July 11-12, 1864
On July 11, 1864, two days after the Battle of Monocacy, Confederate forces under the command of General Jubal A. Early reached the edge of Washington D.C. The following day, the Confederate forces...
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Alexander Kelly and the Battle of Chaffin’s Farm
Alexander Kelly was an African- American Civil War soldier who was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor. He was born on April 7, 1840 in Saltsburg, Pennsylvania and worked as a coal miner prior to...
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Battle of Cynthiana: June 11-12, 1864
The Battle of Cynthiana (also known as Kellar’s Bridge) took place on June 11-12, 1864 in Harrison County, Kentucky. The National Park Service ’s website includes a brief summary regarding the battle...
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The Sinking of the CSS Alabama, June 19, 1864
On the morning of June 19, 1864, before the naval battle with the USS Kearsarge Captain Raphael Semmes of the CSS Alabama, in an impassioned address, spoke to his crew: “you have been all over the...
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Carlisle Fencibles
After the outbreak of the Civil War, four volunteer companies originally consisting of fifty to one hundred men were recruited in Carlisle, Pennsylvania on April 19, 1861. On April 21, the officers...
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The Underground Railroad in Columbia, Pennsylvania
Nineteenth-century historian Robert Clemens Smedley labeled the town of Columbia, Pennsylvania as the birthplace of the organized structure that we now know as the Underground Railroad. Smedley’s...
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The Battle of Five Forks, April 1, 1865
On September 23, 1897 Horatio Collins King, a member of Dickinson College Class of 1858, received a Medal of Honor for his acts of bravery during the battle of Five Forks. As quartermaster of the...
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“The Impending Crisis,” 1860 political cartoon
The Republican Party held its second national convention beginning at noon on May 16, 1860 in Chicago. The presidential nominees included the veteran statesmen Edward Bates, Salmon P. Chase, Simon...
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Election of 1860 – Hinton Rowan Helper
Even though Hinton Rowan Helper published The Impending Crisis of the South: How to Meet It in 1857, the book was still a factor in the election of 1860. While Helper was born in North Carolina to a...
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