President Lincoln visits wounded officer in City Point ward
A Washington Post account recalls Lincoln visiting Major Charles Houghton in a City Point hospital ward during April 1865. The president kissed Houghton's cheek, expressed sorrow for the war, and urged the young captain to live, while offering quiet words of comfort to others in the ward.
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Archbishop Ireland's Civil War Chaplaincy Revealed
Washington Post reports on Arch bishop Ireland who served as a chaplain in the southern Civil War. While near death en route to Vicksburg hospital he revived after a physician doubted his survival. He later became a leading power in American Catholicism.
Stonewall Flanked the Angels and Reaches Heaven First
A Jackson era tale recounts Stonewall Jackson dying and two angels bearing him to heaven. They search his tent outposts and prayer meeting and return empty handed. In heaven, Stonewall has already made a flank march and arrived ahead of them.
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Old foes at Gettysburg recall famous charge sword return
Survivors of Pickett's division and the Philadelphia brigade met on the battlefield September to recall the Civil War clash. The sword Armistead wielded on Cemetery Hill was returned to Philadelphia after the war and its homecoming sparked recollections of the valiant stand around Cushing's cannon.
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Alaska Sale Linked to Civil War Diplomacy Story
An old sailor’s tale in the Portland Oregonian suggests the 1867 Alaska purchase from Russia for 7200000 dollars aided Union aims. It claims Russia kept 150000 men at Cronstadt and lent 500 sailors plus translators for Farragut’s fleet, with covert repatriation after service. The Salem, Oregon resident Thomas Thompson, via Gabriel Justus Dahlgren, provides the account.
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Civil War Vet Survives After Cough Reveals Bullet
Caleb Muir of Four Corners near Plainfield New Jersey long haunted by consumption coughs up a bullet weighing half an ounce during a severe fit. He says he has recovered and gained eight pounds in three weeks. The bullet was one of three from Union cavalry service under General Sheridan in the Shenandoah valley.
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