Jake WynnMay 1, 2020A visit to the Stones River battlefield with two Pennsylvania schoolteachers - May 1867Hannah Streeper and Fannie Couch taught black students at the Pottsville Freedmen's School in Murfreesboro, Tennessee after the Civil War.
Jake WynnMar 3, 2020"The Veteran" - A moving poem from 1867 about the struggle of disabled Civil War veteransHarper's Weekly published "The Veteran" in January 1867. It documented the struggle of disabled Union veterans after the Civil War.
Jake WynnOct 16, 2019National honors to Rebel dead? - A blistering letter about Confederate graves at AntietamIn 1868, the representative of Westmoreland County in Congress spoke out in favor of excluding Confederate war dead from national cemeteries
Jake WynnSep 28, 2019A Pennsylvania Congressman launched the impeachment of President Andrew Johnson in 1868John Covode represented Westmoreland County in the House of Representatives. He launched the first presidential impeachment in US history.
