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Showing posts with label Henry Howard Brownell. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Henry Howard Brownell. Show all posts
July 27, 2012

Brownell: Father, they died for you!

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Civil War poet Henry Howard Brownell dated his poem "One Word" as July 27, 1862: Speak to us, to-day, O Father!    Our heart...
April 19, 2011

It is six and eighty years this very day

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In response to the shots fired at Fort Sumter a week earlier, Union troops from Massachusetts made their way to Washington, D.C. to prote...
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February 18, 2011

Inauguration of Davis: to be let alone

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Jefferson Davis was inaugurated as the first (and only) President of the Confederate States of America on February 18, 1861 — 150 years ago...
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