By Stuart Schneider
I began collecting Lincoln items in law school (mid-1970s). I had collected Civil War items since I was 8 years old and had a few photos of Lincoln. In law school, I sold off my Civil War collection and began to look for original Lincoln photographs, taken and printed while he was living. [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘Civil War’
July 31, 2009
My Abraham Lincoln: Campaign Memorabilia
May 22, 2009
This Weekend in Lincoln History
By Erin Carlson Mast
Memorial Day is a time to gather with friends and family, and to remember our fellow citizens, past and present, who served this country through military service. At President Lincoln’s Cottage, we know we’ll have a great weekend with some good weather, and visitors anxious to learn about Lincoln’s presidency, his time [...]
March 5, 2009
Rare Stereoview of President Lincoln’s Cottage
Erin Carlson Mast
Original images of President Lincoln’s Cottage from the Civil War period are rare. Over five years of research before and during restoration yielded only a couple handfuls of prints, drawings, photographs, and lithographs of the Cottage that date to around the 1860s.
Two months ago, Col. and Mrs. Gary Vroegindewey donated several cartes de visites and other [...]
January 30, 2009
Students Research the Soldiers’ Home National Cemetery
By Erin Carlson Mast
In 2004, President Lincoln’s Cottage formed a partnership with high school history teacher Paul LaRue of the Washington Senior High School in Washington Court House, Ohio. LaRue’s Research History students had recently completed an extensive research project on an historic Ohio cemetery, and were looking for a new project. Staff members at the Cottage were [...]
January 12, 2009
“Lincoln Cottage provided refuge from capital but not toll of war”
Listen to–or read–the latest article on President Lincoln’s Cottage, written by Betty Gordon and published Sunday, January 11, 2009, in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
http://www.ajc.com/travel/content/travel/otherdestinations/us_stories//2009/01/11/lincoln_cottage_Washington.html
October 30, 2007
“How Sleep the Brave”
By Erin Carlson Mast
“How sleep the brave, who sink to rest
By all their country’s wishes blest!”
Lincoln recited those lines of poetry by William Collins as he looked over a sea of soldiers’ graves in the Soldiers’ Home National Cemetery, adjacent to the Soldiers’ Home, in 1864.
While Lincoln lived at the Soldiers’ Home, burials of Civil War [...]
September 5, 2007
A Spy at the Soldiers’ Home
by Erin Carlson Mast
On September 5th, 1862, General McClellan ordered a military guard placed around the Soldiers’ Home to protect Lincoln, but due to a mix-up the troops originally assigned to guard the president wound up at “Soldiers’ Rest.” The next day, the 150th Pennsylvania Volunteers, Company K and D were sent to Soldiers’ Home, [...]
August 21, 2007
How Jeff Davis Gave Abe Lincoln a Summer Retreat
by Erin Carlson Mast
For decades after the first U.S. wars, the military urged Congress to fund services for a growing population of disabled veterans. Notably, Major Robert Anderson, veteran of the Black Hawk war and son of a Revolutionary War veteran campaigned throughout the 1840s for a place to care for veterans. General Winfield Scott [...]
August 1, 2007
A City in Crisis: The Wartime Diaries of Horatio Nelson Taft
by Dr. Frank D. Milligan
One of the most extraordinary Civil War wartime diaries written in a northern city was authored from 1861 to 1865 by Horatio Nelson Taft, a Washington resident and government clerk. His entries describe the prevalent fear felt by Washingtonians of invasion by the southern armies that seemed to swarm its Virginia [...]
