SUVCW John A. Logan Camp #26

06/20/2021

06/15/2021

, June 15th, 1861 the United States Army occupies Jefferson City, Missouri, effectively ensuring that Missouri stayed in the Union during the Civil War.

06/14/2021

in history, Harriet Beecher Stowe was born in Litchfield, Connecticut in 1811. She died in 1896 and is remembered as one of the most influential abolitionist authors of the 19th century. Her best-selling book, "Uncle Tom’s Cabin," an anti-slavery novel containing vivid descriptions of the sufferings and oppression of enslaved African Americans in the United States. is the work that she is perhaps most well known for.

The book provoked a storm of protest and is often credited for being one of the many catalyst of the Civil War.

Information courtesy of our friends at the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center, and image courtesy of the Library of Congress.

For more information about the life and legacy of this American author, please visit https://www.harrietbeecherstowecenter.org/harriet-beecher-stowe/harriet-beecher-stowe-life/

06/09/2021

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04/26/2021

"I have too great a soul to die like a criminal," Booth once wrote

04/20/2021

04/19/2021

On April 11, 1865, at 1 o’clock in the morning, General Joseph E. Johnston learned from an unofficial yet reliable dispatch that General Robert E. Lee...