Richard Lee Turberville Beale, born on May 22, 1819 to a wealthy and well-known couple in Hickory Hill, Virginia, began his boyhood education in various academies in Virginia before moving northward to Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. After graduating with the Class of 1838, Beale practiced law before being elected to the United States House […]
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The Lives of Richard and George Beale
Posted by rothenbb Published in Civil War (1861-1865), Letters & Diariesno comment
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The Battle of Five Forks, April 1, 1865
Posted by solnitr Published in Civil War (1861-1865), Maps, Rare Books, Recent ScholarshipOn September 23, 1897 Horatio Collins King, a member of Dickinson College Class of 1858, received a Medal of Honor for his acts of bravery during the battle of Five Forks. As quartermaster of the first cavalry division of the Army of the Shenandoah, King fought in one of the final Eastern battles of the […]
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Dickinson College 1860 Commencement
Posted by solnitr Published in Antebellum (1840-1861), Historic PeriodicalsDickinson College‘s 1860 commencement exercises occurred on Saturday evening, July 7, 1860. Two local papers’ contrasting reports on the evening demonstrate the partisan nature of nineteenth century newspapers. The Carlisle paper, The Herald, founded by Ekuries Beatty in 1799 originally supported the Whig party, but by 1860 printed articles with a strong Republican bias. In […]
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Captain James Colwell
Posted by sailerd Published in Civil War (1861-1865), Historic Periodicals, Letters & DiariesJames Smith Colwell, who worked as a lawyer in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, was one of the men who answered President Abraham Lincoln’s call for 75,000 volunteers after Confederate forces fired on Fort Sumter on April 12, 1861. Colwell joined the Carlisle Fencibles, a local volunteer company under the command of Robert Henderson, as a first lieutenant. […]
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The Shelling of Carlisle Google Map
Posted by oczkowsl Published in Civil War (1861-1865), Maps, Places to VisitThe map of the Shelling of Carlisle compiled by Leigh Oczkowski is a virtual tour of the Confederate shelling that occurred on July 1, 1863. The tour begins with the entrance of Major General Fitzhugh Lee into the town of Carlisle and ends at the burning of the Carlisle Barracks. We have created a resource […]
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Albert Hazlett – Trial in Carlisle, October 1859
Posted by sailerd Published in Antebellum (1840-1861), Historic Periodicals, Recent ScholarshipAlbert Hazlett was among several of John Brown’s raiders who were not with their leader on the morning of October 18, 1859 when US Marines attacked the engine house at Harpers Ferry, Virginia. Instead, Hazlett and Osborne Anderson watched the short battle from afar. The two men had left Harpers Ferry undetected late on October […]
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Mapping the Dickinson College Class of 1860
Posted by rothenbb Published in 19th Century (1840-1880), MapsThe Dickinson College Class of 1860’s graduation marked for many students the beginning of a necessary transition into an divided country. Given that thirteen students hailed from Slave States and eleven from Free States, the transition differed for each student as they returned to their homes on both sides of the Mason-Dixon Line. This dynamic […]
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Dickinson College President Jesse Peck – “A Practical Joke”
Posted by sailerd Published in Antebellum (1840-1861), Historic PeriodicalsWhen Dickinson College President Jesse Peck arrived in Staunton, Virginia, for a conference in the spring of 1849, local authorities detained him as a result of a prank by Dickinson students. As the Richmond (VA) Examiner reported: “some reprobate student…wrote a letter to the Physician of the Hospital [in Staunton], giving him a description of […]
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A new political movement born out of New York and Philadelphia spread across the country, emerging in Cumberland County in 1854, shaping its politics for more than two years. Spurred by anti-Catholic and anti-immigration sentiment, the Know Nothing party grew to significant prominence if only for a short period during the mid 1850s. Reverend Otis […]
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10
The Soldiers Monument in Carlisle, Pennsylvania was created in a post war effort to honor the Cumberland County soldiers who died as a result of the Civil War. The efforts to build the monument were initiated by the Soldiers Monument Association in early January 1867, which included General Lemuel Todd as Chair, General Robert Miller Henderson as President, and […]
