by ©2021 Sarah Becker Juneteenth On June 19th, 1865, Union Major General Gordon Granger entered Galveston, Texas, and announced the end of the
©2020 Sarah Becker The Lee-Jackson Debate At long last the New Year has arrived. Joe Biden (D-DE) is president-elect; COVID-19 continues its sinister
by ©2019 Sarah Becker Walt Whitman and the Civil War “In midnight sleep of many a face of anguish, Of the look at first of
by Sarah Becker ©2018 The South Secedes! More Civil War battles were fought in Virginia than in any other state. The majority
By Sarah Becker ©2018 Robert E. Lee, the Marble Model West Point classmates called Virginia-born Robert E. Lee the Marble Model, the Marble Man. He
By Sarah Becker © 2017 An Act to Encourage Immigration Abraham Lincoln, in his 1864 holiday proclamation, praised Almighty God for augmenting “our
CIVIL DISCOURSE, MAY 1865 As the war wound down in April of 1865, 2100 paroled Union POWs assembled at a camp near Vicksburg, Mississippi to
“Like so many individual participants in the national blood-letting, Alexandrians going to [civil] war were simply fulfilling their duty, upholding personal honor, not caught up
CIVIL DISCOURSE, FEBRUARY 1865 In most of our minds, 150 years later, we have a notion that the North fought the South, which is true.
CIVIL DISCOURSE, JANUARY 1865 A lot of people think that the Civil War ended in April of 1865, when Lee surrendered at Appomattox. Not so
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