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Explorations: Park and Museum Guide 2014
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Virtual Camp and School Guide. Explorations: Park and Museum Guide 2014. American Chestnut Land Trust. Hiking trails, guided canoe trips, bird watching, annual events, and activities. A public sculpture garden featuring a ¼ mile walking path. Summer events include: festivals, rotating exhibitions, family activities, and creative public programs. Battle Creek Cypress Swamp Sanctuary. Ideal day trip for the young and old alike – boardwalk, nature center, exhibits. Breezy Point Beach and Campground. Student...
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Glimpses of a leader. A rebel widow visits the Lincolns. Posted by Lincoln Wonk. Asymp; Leave a Comment. One word for Emilie Helm’s visit to the White House — awkward. Helm, Mary Lincoln’s younger half-sister, came to her sister’s home for sympathy after her husband Confederate Brigader General Benjamin Hardin Helm died in battle at Chickamauga. Visitors who encountered Helm were taken aback. Mrs Helm soon left for Kentucky on a presidential pass that did not require an oath allegiance. Asymp; Leave a Co...
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2014 February | Lincoln Wonk
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Glimpses of a leader. Posted by Lincoln Wonk. Asymp; Leave a Comment. Four border states that would have added manpower and resources to the Confederacy declined to leave the Union despite the fact that they all leaned pro slavery Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky and Missouri. Delaware was first to reject the Confederacy. Maryland would have been particularly helpful to the Confederates because it circled Washington on three sides, and Confederates could have could have pressed the Union capitol. After the a...
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Marfan’s rumors are unfounded
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Glimpses of a leader. Marfan’s rumors are unfounded. Posted by Lincoln Wonk. Asymp; Leave a Comment. It is unlikely President Lincoln had Marfan’s Syndrome, a gentic disorder that causes heart defects, lung defects, and eye problems. People with Marfan’s often are unusually tall with extremely long limbs. Although he fit the outward physical description for Marfan’s and the rumors have been circulating for more than 50 years, President Lincoln was exceptionally hardy and healthy. Larr; Previous post.
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2013 October | Lincoln Wonk
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Glimpses of a leader. Seances and a swindler. Posted by Lincoln Wonk. Asymp; Leave a Comment. Mary Lincoln consulted with multiple mediums while she resided at the White House, often in attempts to make contact with her deceased son Willie. She was not alone. Belief in spiritualism soared as war fatalities and victims of childhood disease did. Source: Reveille in Washington by Margaret Leech. Posted by Lincoln Wonk. Asymp; Leave a Comment. Source: Abraham Lincoln: The Writer, edited by Harold Holzer.
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Haunted Places in Maryland
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Haunted Places in Maryland. Haunted Places in Maryland. Monument at Antietam Battlefield. Paranormal Researcher and Seer. Maryland is one of the most haunted states. In the country. This state has strong roots in the creation of the first colony as well as battlegrounds for not just the Revolutionary War, but the War of 1812 and the Civil War. Many hauntings surround these historical events. 1 Antietam Battlefield, Sharpsburg. It's referred to by the US National Park Service. Blue balls of light. During ...
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Fort Jefferson | BoothieBarn
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John Wilkes Booth in the Woods. Posts Tagged With: Fort Jefferson. The Dry Tortugas Prisoners. February 15, 2016. On April 7, 1866, the following article was published in the New York Herald. It provides an interesting look at the condition and day to day existence of three of the Lincoln assassination conspirators imprisoned at Fort Jefferson: Dr. Mudd, Samuel Arnold, and Edman Spangler. The Dry Tortugas Prisoners. Our Fortress Monroe Correspondence. Fortress Monroe, April 5, 1866. In September of 1865,...
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He fooled some of the people
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Glimpses of a leader. He fooled some of the people. Posted by Lincoln Wonk. Asymp; Leave a Comment. In January 1861, after Lincoln was elected president, his family was seated in the dining room of the Metropolitan Hotel in Manhattan when they overheard some men loudly remarking: “Could he, with any honor, fill the presidential chair. Would his west gaucherie disgrace the nation? Source: Mrs. Lincoln: A Life by Catherine Clinton. Larr; Previous post. Next post →. Mail (will not be published) (required).
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2014 January | Lincoln Wonk
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Glimpses of a leader. After Lee’s bloody victory. Posted by Lincoln Wonk. Asymp; Leave a Comment. When word of Gen. Robert E. Lee’s spectacular and bloody victory at Chancellorsville arrived at the War Department in Washington on May 6, 1863, observers said President Lincoln couldn’t have been more overwhelmed if he had been struck by a thunderbolt and he couldn’t have looked more ghostlike if he had just risen from the dead. What will the country say? What will the country say? Maybe he was a collector.
