Civil War Posts

When an Influx of French-Canadian Immigrants Struck Fear Into Americans...

The United States, while ostensibly welcoming immi... ...mmigrants from -of all places- Canada. During the Civil War , shipments of cotton from the South ceased and Ne... ...nd mills shut down. As business resumed after the war , nearly a million French-Canadian workers arrived...

https://www.neatorama.com/2019/08/26/When-an-Influx-of-French-Canadian-Immigrants-Struck-Fear-Into-Americans/

When Soap Companies Used God To Sell Their Products...

“Cleanliness is next to god... ...ious terms.<blockquote>Before the Civil War , the authors explain, a kind of “cleanlines...

https://www.neatorama.com/2019/08/21/When-Soap-Companies-Used-God-To-Sell-Their-Products/

Henrietta Wood Sued for Reparations in 1870...

After the Fugitive Slave Law was enacted in 1850,... ...ood. In 1870, she filed a lawsuit against Zebulon Ward for $20,000 in reparations.Born into bondage in K... ...n 1848, but five years later she was kidnapped by Ward , who sold her, and she ended up enslaved on a Tex... ...up enslaved on a Texas plantati...

https://www.neatorama.com/2019/08/19/Henrietta-Wood-Sued-for-Reparations-in-1870/

The Actress Who Left the Stage to Become a Civil War Spy

Pauline Cushman went to New York City to become an... ...become an actress. After her husband died in the Civil War in 1862, she found work at Wood's Theater in Loui... ...ded Union soldiers and had her arrested.After the war , Cushman resumed her acting career and was regard... ...s a star that burned even b...

https://www.neatorama.com/2019/08/17/The-Actress-Who-Left-the-Stage-to-Become-a-Civil-War-Spy/

The Diaries Left Behind by Confederate Soldiers Reveal the True Role of Enslaved Labor at Gettysburg...

Stories have been told since about the mid-1970s o... ...book titled Searching for Black Confederates: The Civil War ’s Most Persistent Myth. Levin's most import... ...the diaries that Confederate soldiers kept as the war went on. Those contemporary accounts painted a pi... ...se contemporary accounts p...

https://www.neatorama.com/2019/07/08/The-Diaries-Left-Behind-by-Confederate-Soldiers-Reveal-the-True-Role-of-Enslaved-Labor-at-Gettysburg/

How the American Flag Became Sacred—and the Hottest Brand in the Nation...

Ever since the Continental Congress adopted the st... ...erican flag was always popular, but only with the Civil War did flag mania begin. Kit Hinrichs has collected... ...banners, and merchants unabashedly wrapped their wares in flag packaging and made the Stars and Stripes...

https://www.neatorama.com/2019/07/02/How-the-American-Flag-Became-Sacredand-the-Hottest-Brand-in-the-Nation/

5 Stories That Prove The Founding Fathers Were Total Maniacs...

The men who waged the Revolutionary War and established the United States were wealthy me... ...hrough towering snow for 14 days to deliver it to civilization , had it spruced up a bit by a taxidermist, and sh...

https://www.neatorama.com/2019/07/01/5-Stories-That-Prove-The-Founding-Fathers-Were-Total-Maniacs/

Scale Models of the Battle of Gettysburg with 8,000 Miniature Cats...

<a href="https:// civilwartails .com/" target="_blank"> Civil War Tails</a> is a museum in Gettysburg, Pennsy... ...ennsylvania that commemorates the famous American Civil War campaign fought there in 1863. Twin sisters Rebec... &nbs...

https://www.neatorama.com/2019/07/01/Scale-Models-of-the-Battle-of-Gettysburg-with-8-000-Miniature-Cats/

Sonora Smart Dodd: The Woman Who Founded Father's Day...

Why is it that we're celebrating... ...Mother’s Day sermon in 1909. Her father, a Civil War veteran and widower, had raised Dodd and her five...

https://www.neatorama.com/2019/06/16/Sonora-Smart-Dodd-The-Woman-Who-Founded-Father-s-Day/

The Wakamatsu Settlers of Gold Hill Celebrate 150 Years...

<a href="https://www.fres... ...the strife and struggle of a country caught in a civil war .With nowhere to go, the group...

https://www.neatorama.com/2019/06/04/The-Wakamatsu-Settlers-of-Gold-Hill-Celebrate-150-Years/