HACKENSACK -- Bergen County's African-American soldiers who participated in the Civil War are the focus of a monthlong exhibit at the county administration building. The exhibit called "The Price of Freedom: African Americans in the Civil War," includes research gathered in large part by Arnold Brown, chairman of the county's African-American Advisory Committee.
WEST HAVEN -- The West Haven Historical Society will mark the 150th anniversary of the start of the American Civil War with a program honoring Connecticut's Civil War soldiers March 4. The program, set for 7 p.m. at Carrigan School, will include Kevin Johnson playing William Webb, a black Civil War soldier from Connecticut who was a member of the state's 29th Colored Infantry. Johnson, an employee of the Connecticut State Library History and Genealogy Unit, will illustrate the struggle of the men engaged in fighting in the war.
The dubious distinction of being the first Maine soldier killed during the Civil War goes to Pvt. Addison Whitney of Belmont. It is significant because for 150 years, people have honored another soldier for that distinction. On April 19, 1861, Cpl. Sumner Needham turned to Pvt. James Knights while standing outside Baltimores President Street Station and said, We shall have trouble today, and I shall never get out alive. Needham and Knights belonged to Company I, 6th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment.
In the pre-dawn dark of April 12, 1861, two men delivered a message to Union Maj. Robert Anderson, commander of Fort Sumter in South Carolina. Sir: By authority of Brig. Gen. (Pierre G.T. ) Beauregard, commanding the Provisional Forces of the Confederate States, we have the honor to notify you that he will open the fire of his batteries on Fort Sumter in one hour from this time.
HINCKLEY Central Maine Serves, a project of the Central Kennebec Heritage Council, will sponsor "Maine Civil War Photography" with Earle G. Shettleworth, director of Maine Historic Preservation Commission, at 7 p.m. Friday, July 8, at Good Will-Hinckley in Hinckley. The event is free. Other area community museums with exhibits pertaining to the Civil War, and men who served in other wars, opening 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Saturday, July 9, are:
OVERLOOKED LANDMARK: One hundred and fifty years after the opening shots of the Civil War, it's all quiet on the western terminus of the highway named in honor of the Union veterans of that battle of brothers. You can walk by the marker and not even take the slightest notice of what it says. On any day hundreds - thousands on a weekend like the one coming up here in town - will pass it and not even glance at its words.
ALEXANDER Hiram Crafts was 36 years old in 1864 when he volunteered to serve in the Maine Coast Guard Unattached Infantry where he was charged with protecting Northern shipping interests from attack by Confederate navy ships. A native of New Brunswick, he lived on a farm on Arm Road in Alexander, and when he died in 1891 at the age of 63, he was buried in the Alexander town cemetery.
HARRISBURG, Pa., Sept. 22 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- In commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the Civil War, the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission has published a book that traces the life of five soldiers who went on to be elected the state's chief executive. Soldiers to Governors: Pennsylvania's Civil War Veterans who Became State Leaders" was researched and written by Richard C. Saylor, an archivist for the Pennsylvania State Archives. Most of the material in the 196-page, full-color, and cloth-cover book has never before been published or exhibited.
The Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System Web site at www.itd.nps.gov/cwss/ was labeled an "Editor's Pick" in the July- August 2010 issue of Family Chronicle magazine. The listing of 6.3 million soldiers, both Union and Confederate, is complete and came from the National Archives, according to the magazine. It is a project of the National Park Service, hence the nps in the site's address.
News illustrations and editorial cartoons in Harper's Weekly and Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, the two major illustrated news weeklies of the time, have been credited with directly aiding Civil War enlistment efforts in the North. This article uses illustrations and editorial cartoons published from 1861 to 1864 in both weeklies to demonstrate that while they supported voluntary enlistments and bounties, Harper's supported the Civil War draft while Leslie's did not. The difference in editorial positions regarding the draft was heightened by coverage of the draft riots in 1863. Harper's played down the riots and limited coverage primarily to a two-page spread depicting ape-like, Irish rioters committing acts of violence. Leslie's carried considerably more coverage, depicting less...
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