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Who was Isabelle Scott?
Isabelle Scott lived in Mattoon, Illinois from 1902 until her death in 1907. She died of tuberculosis at the young age of 30-32. In those short years, Isabelle was the notorious madam of a brothel on what was then called Railroad Street/Cottage Avenue. She rubbed elbows with notorious figures in Mattoon’s underworld, even a city…
The Confederate Memorial in Arlington National Cemetery
Slated for removal before the New Year, you may soon only be able to see this memorial in photographs. Dedicated in 1914, the 32-foot Confederate Memorial in Arlington National Cemetery was designed and sculpted by Moses J. Ezekiel (1844-1917), the first Jewish graduate of the Virginia Military Institute in Lexington. Ezekiel fought alongside his fellow…
Gettysburg Campaign – Manassas Gap, July 23, 1863
Twenty days after the Battle of Gettysburg, Confederate General Robert E. Lee’s exhausted Army of Northern Virginia was marching up the Shenandoah Valley, trying to find a safe route into central Virginia. Union Maj. Gen. George G. Meade pursued with the remainder of his Army of the Potomac. The Blue Ridge Mountains separated both armies.…
Gettysburg Campaign – Falling Waters, July 14, 1863
Though the Union Army of the Potomac’s senior officers voted against taking the offensive against Robert E. Lee’s beleaguered army entrenched around Williamsport, Maryland, Maj. Gen. George G. Meade ordered a reconnaissance in force. Lee was trapped by the Potomac River’s high waters, but by July 13, 1863, those waters had begun to recede, allowing…
Gettysburg Campaign – Council of War, July 12, 1863
As Confederate General Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia dug in around Williamsport, Maryland, Union Maj. Gen. George G. Meade weighed his options. Pressure from Washington, DC to attack Lee’s army while it was trapped in Maryland was enormous. Confederate engineers had erected an impressive network of earthworks, however, and the Union Army of…
Gettysburg Campaign – Hagerstown, July 12, 1863
By July 12, 1863, the Union Army of the Potomac had settled into a position opposite the Confederate trenches and fortifications around Williamsport, Maryland, but Confederate cavalry still threatened its right flank at Hagerstown. Acting on intelligence that 6,000 gray troopers occupied the town, Brig. Gen. Hugh Judson Kilpatrick’s division returned to Hagerstown, spearheaded by…
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