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100 years ago today in Seattle. April 8, 1924: Summer arrived in Seattle on a pleasant Tuesday, April 8th, 1924, according to Seattle...
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Jun 10, 20222 min read
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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Civil War Seattle
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
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, 20221 min read
General Gibbon As Ruler Of Seattle
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...
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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
"War Relics Go to Scrap Heap"
Two young ladies from Seattle's Franklin High School, Jean Grasser (left) and Lugenia Whitehouse (right), showing a Civil War musket and...
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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, 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, 20221 min read
Lincoln's Birthday, Seattle 1921
101 years ago, on this very same evening, the Union Civil War veterans of the John F Miller post Grand Army of the Republic and the women...
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Civil War Seattle
Mar 15, 20221 min read
SCWL's latest for Emerging Civil War
https://emergingcivilwar.com/2022/02/28/the-lost-1890-census-and-the-surviving-special-schedule/
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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, 20222 min read
A Civil War vet with a Gat
A CIVIL WAR VET WITH A GAT George Camp was not the only Civil War veteran to be arrested for illegally discharging a firearm in Seattle,...
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