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On July 18th, 1945, in a quiet ceremony held at the south Seattle home of Mr. and Mrs. Patrick Coyle, the Silver Star Medal—America’s...

Civil War veteran and auxiliary organizations can be confusing and tough to understand What was it that they did? A veritable alphabet...

Pictured below is the headstone of Mrs. Minnie Blundin (1863-1906) in Seattle’s Lake View cemetery. Monument at the graves of Minnie and...

Jane Bogue, a senior at the University of Washington, was fortunate to escape with her life from an accident at the corner of 11th Ave NE...

This is a generous and touching feature of a February 1944 issue of the Seattle Times. The paper printed these photos of Seattle...

100 years ago today in Seattle. April 8, 1924: Summer arrived in Seattle on a pleasant Tuesday, April 8th, 1924, according to Seattle...

In this weekend's edition of the Seattle Times "Pacific NW Magazine" you may see some familiar names and faces if you follow me here at...

Hi folks! Thursday evening, July 14th I will be joining the wonderful folks at the Fall City Historical Society for a summer Wine Walk...

Clement Phelps (1839-1914) Mount Pleasant Cemetery Seattle WA Pictured is the grave of Clement Phelps in Seattle's historic Mount...

In 1878, the nation's leading organization of Union veterans of the Civil War, the Grand Army of the Republic, was established for the...

Seattle Civil War veteran Asbury F. Haynes was awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions at the Battle of Sailor’s Creek, fought on...

A searing commentary on Jefferson Davis appeared in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer newspaper, June 1, 1893. This was part of a piece...

The Parson and the Lieutenant, Henry Risley and William Rumsey - Battery A 1st Illinois Light Artillery The story of a pair of Illinois...

By August 1942, Seattle’s Grand Army of the Republic membership was down to just 2 men. Daniel Reams and Hiram Gale were all that...

The June 1899 annual department encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic was one of the largest in the department of Washington and...

Here is an interesting headline that was part of General John Gibbon’s obituary in a February 1896 Seattle P.I. newspaper. Best known for...

SCWL piece for Emerging Civil War" https://emergingcivilwar.com/2021/09/22/a-young-woman-in-washington-state-upholds-the-legacy-of-union...

December 8, 2021 marked the 80th anniversary of the United States' formal entry into World War II. Remarkably, in 1941, there were...

This is the Seattle gravesite of Catherine M. Henry at Evergreen cemetery. Miss Henry was the great-granddaughter of Seattle Civil War...

On August 10th,1893, The Yakima Herald published an article on the life story of General John F Reynolds from the Associated Press. While...