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1862 May 14: “We succeeded in silencing forts, gunboats, rams, and everything else belonging to the rebeldom”
A letter from a soldier in the 4th Wisconsin Infantry, originally published in The Milwaukee Sentinel, was reprinted in The Hudson North Star on May 14, 1862. The letter and a post script, written t… more →
The Civil War and Northwest Wisconsin
1862 May 14: "We succeeded in silencing forts, gunboats, rams, and everything else belonging to the rebeldom"
wrote 1 year ago: A letter from a soldier in the 4th Wisconsin Infantry, originally published in The Milwaukee Sentine … more →
1862 May 3: "We arrived safe and sound at the levee at this place [New Orleans] on the first day of May"
wrote 1 year ago: The “original” letter is in the Frank D. Harding Papers (River Falls Mss AB), University … more →
1862 April 30: New Orleans Captured!
wrote 1 year ago: Both The Hudson North Star and The Prescott Journal on April 30, 1862, carried the same article on t … more →
The Capture of New Orleans
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wrote 1 year ago: Close to 150 years ago today New Orleans was captured by the Union army during the American Civil Wa … more →
150 Years Ago Today – The Capture of New Orleans
wrote 1 year ago: The Southern city of New Orleans was defended downstream by two forts – Fort Jackson and Fort St. Ph … more →
Lecture, "Turning a Page: War Becomes Real in 1862."
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wrote 1 year ago: Yesterday the Alfred C. O’Connell Library at Genesee Community College hosted a Civil War lect … more →
