My colorization of Francis Brownell who received the Medal of Honor for killing James W. Jackson after Jackson shot Col. Elmer E. Ellsworth, colonel of the 11th New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment. Although Brownell didn’t receive the award until 1877, a dozen...
On December 22, 1864, Union General William T. Sherman presents the city of Savannah, Georgia, to President Abraham Lincoln. Sherman captured the city after his famous March to the Sea from Atlanta. Savannah had been one of the last major ports that remained open to...
Confederate General Robert E. Lee Dies After Suffering a StrokeOn this day in 1870, General Robert Edward Lee, the commander of the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia, dies peacefully at his home in Lexington, Virginia. He was 63 years old.The following photograph...
The Death of Mary Todd Lincoln Mary Lincoln passed away on July 16, 1882, at the home of her sister Elizabeth in Springfield, IL. At her funeral, Reverend Reed eloquently spoke of two trees that had grown so close together that their roots had become intertwined. When...
The following is taken from the Confederate Veteran (1902): A strange report comes from a public school in Louisville. It is that “Marching through Georgia” is sung in school there. A special in the Atlanta Constitution states that Laura Talbot Galt, aged...
On April 14, 1865, at the climax of a performance of Our American Cousin at Ford’s Theatre in Washington, D.C., well-known stage actor John Wilkes Booth entered Abraham Lincoln’s private balcony and shot the president in the back of the head. After struggling...
