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    A visit to the Stones River battlefield with two Pennsylvania schoolteachers - May 1867
    Jake Wynn
    • May 1, 2020

    A visit to the Stones River battlefield with two Pennsylvania schoolteachers - May 1867

    Hannah Streeper and Fannie Couch taught black students at the Pottsville Freedmen's School in Murfreesboro, Tennessee after the Civil War.
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    "The Veteran" - A moving poem from 1867 about the struggle of disabled Civil War veterans
    Jake Wynn
    • Mar 3, 2020

    "The Veteran" - A moving poem from 1867 about the struggle of disabled Civil War veterans

    Harper's Weekly published "The Veteran" in January 1867. It documented the struggle of disabled Union veterans after the Civil War.
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    National honors to Rebel dead? - A blistering letter about Confederate graves at Antietam
    Jake Wynn
    • Oct 16, 2019

    National honors to Rebel dead? - A blistering letter about Confederate graves at Antietam

    In 1868, the representative of Westmoreland County in Congress spoke out in favor of excluding Confederate war dead from national cemeteries
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    A Pennsylvania Congressman launched the impeachment of President Andrew Johnson in 1868
    Jake Wynn
    • Sep 28, 2019

    A Pennsylvania Congressman launched the impeachment of President Andrew Johnson in 1868

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