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Henry Elliot Shepherd (House Divided)

Sources
Shepherd wrote several books, including The History of the English Language from the Teutonic Invasion of Britain to the close of the Georgian Era (1874),
Life of Robert Edward Lee (1906), and Narrative of Prison Life at Baltimore and Johnson’s Island, Ohio (1917). In addition, Documenting the American South has a short essay about Shepherd.

Places to Visit
Shepherd served in the 43rd North Carolina Infantry Regiment and was captured during the Battle of Gettysburg. The 43rd North Carolina’s monument at Gettysburg is located on East Confederate Avenue. While in Gettysburg you can also visit the Gettysburg National Military Park Museum and Visitor Center as well as tour the David Wills’ house.

Images
A photograph of Shepherd is available on his House Divided profile.

1917 (Arguing for Justice) Mary Walker

By sailerd

On December 9, 2010

In Arguing for Justice, Memory & Meaning (1865-2015)

Mary Edwards Walker (Library of Congress)

Life & Family
President Andrew Johnson signed bill that authorized Medal of Honor for Walker. President Carter restored Walker’s Medal of Honor on June 10, 1977.

Sources
While Walker published two books – Hit: Essays on Women’s Rights (1871) and Unmasked, or the Science of Immorality, To Gentlemen by a Woman Physician (1878) – , she never wrote about her experiences as a surgeon during the Civil War. In addition, the Mary Edwards Walker Papers at Syracuse University contain her correspondence. Several books about Walker have recently been published, including Dale L. Walker’s Mary Edwards Walker: Above and Beyond (2005), Sharon M. Harris’ Dr. Mary Walker: An American Radical, 1832-1919 (2009), and Bonnie Z. Goldsmith’s Dr. Mary Edwards Walker: Civil War Surgeon & Medal of Honor Recipient (2010). Other important secondary sources include Elizabeth D. Leonard’s Yankee Women: Gender Battles in the Civil War (1994). In addition, see entries in Judith E. Harper’s Women During the Civil War: An Encyclopedia (2007) and Lynne E. Ford’s Encyclopedia of Women and American Politics (2008). You can also read Walker’s profile at the “National Library of Medicine.” In addition, this article from the New York Times on June 4, 1977 describes the efforts to restore her Medal of Honor.

Artifacts
Walker’s original Medal of Honor is apparently at the Oswego County Historical Society in New York.

Images
Several images are in the Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Collection , including one circa 1860-70 and one circa 1911. The Mary Edwards Walker Papers at Syracuse University also contain several photographs.

1946 (Arguing for Justice) Paul Robeson

By sailerd

On December 13, 2010

In Arguing for Justice, Memory & Meaning (1865-2015)

Paul Robeson (Farm Security Administration)

Places to Visit
You can visit the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC.

Images
The photograph of Paul Robeson is available from the Farm Security Administration.

Image Credit – (Farm Security Administration – photographer Gordon Parks)

1963 GEORGE WALLACE AT GETTYSBURG

By sailerd

On March 4, 2010

In Arguing for Justice, Memory & Meaning (1865-2015)

In July 1963, Alabama governor George Wallace traveled to Gettysburg for the 100th anniversary commemorations of the battle. The article (right) describes George Wallace’s remarks soon after he arrived.

Citation: Florence (AL) Times, July 1, 1963, p. 1. Credit: Google News

While Wallace did not appear to make a speech in Gettysburg, he went to Washington D.C. in mid-July 1963 to testify before the Senate about JFK’s proposed civil rights legislation. At one point during the hearing, Wallace referred to the South as “the Confederate States” (see excerpt to the right). Source – Dan T. Carter, The Politics of Rage: George Wallace, the Origins of the New Conservatism, and the Transformation of American Politics (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1995), 157.