Reconstruction

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.

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.

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

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.