Hannah Streeper and Fannie Couch taught black students at the Pottsville Freedmen's School in Murfreesboro, Tennessee after the Civil War.

Harper's Weekly published "The Veteran" in January 1867. It documented the struggle of disabled Union veterans after the Civil War.

In 1868, the representative of Westmoreland County in Congress spoke out in favor of excluding Confederate war dead from national cemeteries

John Covode represented Westmoreland County in the House of Representatives. He launched the first presidential impeachment in US history.