Captured by Forrest - Seattle's Clement Phelps of Company B 81st Illinois Infantry
Clement Phelps (1839-1914) Mount Pleasant Cemetery Seattle WA Pictured is the grave of Clement Phelps in Seattle's historic Mount...
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May 30, 20222 min read
Seattle's first Memorial Day - 1879
In 1878, the nation's leading organization of Union veterans of the Civil War, the Grand Army of the Republic, was established for the...
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Civil War Seattle
Apr 5, 20224 min read
Seattle Civil War Medal of Honor Recipient, Asbury F. Haynes
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...
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Civil War Seattle
Mar 23, 20221 min read
The Wandering Ghost of the Lost Cause
A searing commentary on Jefferson Davis appeared in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer newspaper, June 1, 1893. This was part of a piece...
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Civil War Seattle
Mar 17, 20227 min read
The Parson and the Lieutenant, Henry Risley & William Rumsey - Battery A 1st IL Light Artillery
The Parson and the Lieutenant, Henry Risley and William Rumsey - Battery A 1st Illinois Light Artillery The story of a pair of Illinois...
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Civil War Seattle
Mar 15, 20222 min read
The last man to join the G.A.R. in Seattle
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...
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Civil War Seattle
Mar 15, 20223 min read
Hundreds of Civil War veterans visit the USS Iowa in Bremerton in 1899
The June 1899 annual department encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic was one of the largest in the department of Washington and...
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Civil War Seattle
Mar 15, 20221 min read
A Young Woman in Washington State Upholds the Legacy of Union Army Veterans in 1914
SCWL piece for Emerging Civil War" https://emergingcivilwar.com/2021/09/22/a-young-woman-in-washington-state-upholds-the-legacy-of-union...
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Civil War Seattle
Mar 15, 20221 min read
Seattle Civil War vet witnessed 12 great grandchildren enlist in WWII
December 8, 2021 marked the 80th anniversary of the United States' formal entry into World War II. Remarkably, in 1941, there were...
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Civil War Seattle
Mar 15, 20221 min read
An uncommon legacy - Seattle Civil War Veteran saw a great-granddaughter become an officer in WWII
This is the Seattle gravesite of Catherine M. Henry at Evergreen cemetery. Miss Henry was the great-granddaughter of Seattle Civil War...
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Civil War Seattle
Mar 15, 20221 min read
John F Reynolds -"The Romantic Soldier"
On August 10th,1893, The Yakima Herald published an article on the life story of General John F Reynolds from the Associated Press. While...
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Civil War Seattle
Mar 15, 20221 min read
"I wouldn't be in favor"
January 4th, 1941, Seattle Civil War veteran Rustan O. Reed celebrated his 94th birthday. On the occasion, he offered some thoughts on...
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Civil War Seattle
Mar 15, 20222 min read
---An Old Wound Opened---
The Confederate battle flag, to put it bluntly, was generally not welcomed by Union veterans of the Civil War. While great strides had...
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Civil War Seattle
Mar 15, 20225 min read
“We Have No Use For Their Kind”
Despite the turmoil of a nation embroiled in a Civil War, the traffic of emigrants moving westward on the Oregon Trail remained high. An...
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Civil War Seattle
Mar 15, 20221 min read
Lincoln's Birthday becomes a holiday in Washington State in 1895
On February 12, 1895 Washington State became the second state, following Illinois, to recognize Abraham Lincoln’s birthday as a legal...
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Civil War Seattle
Mar 15, 20225 min read
Benjamin Best - A Bellevue Civil War veteran with a tragic ending
The life of Benjamin Best is an interesting one to say the very least. It is filled with remarkable details, many mysteries and a sad and...
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Civil War Seattle
Mar 15, 20222 min read
Seattle's Confederate Olympic Gold Medalist
***The only Civil War soldier to win Olympic Gold*** Seattle's Will H. Thompson was the only man to have fought in the Civil War and win...
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Civil War Seattle
Mar 15, 20222 min read
A Seattle talk that “carried the boys back some thirty years”
—March 7, 1893 in Seattle— On the evening of March 7, 1893, the men of Seattle’s John F Miller post of the Grand Army of the Republic met...
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Civil War Seattle
Mar 15, 20225 min read
Asbury Haynes and the burial of the Unknown Soldier
Asbury Haynes wearing the overcoat he wore in the procession 100 years ago today, November 11, 1921, an unknown American soldier killed...
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