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Tag Archives: Civil War
New NSHS-Authored Book Shows Nebraska’s Role in Civil War
From a pool of barely nine thousand men of military age, Nebraska—still a territory at the time—sent more than three thousand soldiers to the Civil War. They fought and died for the Union cause, were wounded, taken prisoner, and in … Continue reading
Should Casler’s Grave Be Decorated?
By 1929 the ranks of Civil War veterans were thinning. Each year Nebraska cemeteries saw more old soldiers’ graves bedecked with flowers on Decoration Day, as Memorial Day was then known. Yet the last resting place of at least one … Continue reading
Posted in Nebraska History, Nebraska Timeline, Publications Tagged Civil War, Memorial Day, Orlando Casler, Seward, William H. Smith 2 Comments
Lost in the Mail: Soldiers’ Photographs from the Civil War
The spring of 1898 saw preparations well underway for the opening later that year of the Trans-Mississippi and International Exposition in Omaha. The Omaha Daily Bee reported on May 2 that exhibit installation in the U.S. Government Building was “in … Continue reading
The Death of Col. William McCord, First Nebraska Volunteer Infantry
April 6-7 marks the 150th anniversary of the 1862 Battle of Shiloh (aka Pittsburg Landing) in Tennessee, one of two major Civil War battles in which the First Nebraska Regiment participated. Commanding the regiment at Shiloh, as he had done … Continue reading
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The First Nebraska Regiment’s Baptism of Fire, 1862
This month marks the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Fort Donelson, fought in the tangled, snow-covered woods of northwestern Tennessee in mid-February 1862. There on February 13 Gen. Ulysses S. Grant’s Union army laid siege to Confederate fortifications surrounding … Continue reading
Seeing Lincoln: Nebraska Civil War Veterans Remember
Abraham Lincoln’s birthday in 1925 was celebrated by the History Club of Kearney State Teachers College with a dinner attended by members of the club and by several honored guests who had seen Lincoln during their Civil War military service. … Continue reading
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Miles, Mules, and Men: The Forgotten Front of the Civil War
Imagine your car. Now consider the amount of gas that it requires to keep it running. Picture that your car is in the middle of rural, untamed Nebraska: there are no gas stations for miles. Multiply your car into several … Continue reading
Posted in Nebraska History, Publications Tagged Civil War, cowboy, Great Plains, horses, Indians, military, Nebraska territory, supply trains, transportation, U.S. Cavalry Leave a comment
Nebraska and the Civil War: Why the Story Matters
Nebraska has a rich Civil War legacy, according to James E. Potter, senior research historian at the Nebraska State Historical Society. Potter and Edith Robbins edited the letters of Nebraska soldier August Scherneckau, published in 2007 by the University of … Continue reading
The 150th Anniversary of Lincoln’s First Inaugural Address – March 4, 2011
Shortly after noon on March 4, 1861, Abraham Lincoln stepped to a platform on the east portico of the U.S. Capitol. He was about to deliver what Historian James M. McPherson has termed “the most important such speech in American … Continue reading
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A Cow on the Roof and a Bullet in the Head
Solomon Butcher’s 1886 cow-on-the-roof photo is one of the best known and most iconic images of homesteading on the Great Plains. Butcher photographed Sylvester Rawding’s family in front of their sod house near West Union, Custer County, Nebraska. Butcher eventually … Continue reading
Posted in Nebraska History, Photograph Collection, Publications Tagged agriculture, Civil War, Custer County, homestead, military, Solomon Butcher 1 Comment