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    Lt. Thomas Sweeny – Carlisle Barracks (1854-1855)

    By admin Posted on February 24, 2011 Posted in Antebellum (1840-1861), Our History

    Richard J. Coyer, ed., “Carlisle Barracks—1854-1855: From the Letters of Lt. Thomas W. Sweeny, 2nd Infantry,” Cumberland County History 16 (1999): 100-115. This article contains nine letters to Ellen Sweeny about Lt. Sweeny’s experiences and acquaintances at the Carlisle Barracks. …

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    Article – McClintock Riot (June 1847)

    By admin Posted on February 11, 2011 Posted in Antebellum (1840-1861)

    Martha C. Slotten, “The McClintock Slave Riot of 1847,” Cumberland County History 17 (2000): 14-35. In this definitive account of a June 1847 riot in Carlisle over fugitive slaves, Martha C. Slotten explains how two slaveowners from Hagerstown, Maryland – …

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    Old Courthouse – McClintock Riot (June 1847)

    By admin Posted on February 6, 2011 Posted in Antebellum (1840-1861), Our History

    While Dickinson College Professor “John McClintock spent twelve long, difficult, though happy years in Carlisle,” Martha C. Slotten notes that for him any “sense of belonging…was quickly dispelled in the riot on the square” in June 1847. Two slaveowners from Hagerstown, …

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    Kauffman Trials (1848)

    By admin Posted on February 4, 2011 Posted in Antebellum (1840-1861), Our History

    In 1848 Maryland slaveowner Mary M. Oliver filed a lawsuit in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania against Daniel Kauffman and two associates for helping thirteen fugitive slaves escape. Early in October 1847 two families of slaves – four adults and nine children …

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    The Old Courthouse, Carlisle, Pennsylvania

    By admin Posted on February 3, 2011 Posted in Antebellum (1840-1861), Our History

    This courthouse was the third on the Carlisle Public Square.  The first Cumberland County courthouse was a temporary log structure on the north-east corner of the square built in 1753.  In 1766, a new brick courthouse was built on the …

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