The Great Fair

Happy Holidays! As we prepare to ring in the new year, it seems fitting to recall a festive occassion from 1861.

Source: Winslow Homer, “The Great Fair” in the December 28, 1861 edition of Harper’s Weekly.

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Special Field Orders No. 15

Our Black History Month celebration continues with General Willaim Tecumseh Sherman’s Special Field Orders No. 15. Issued January 16, 1865, Sherman’s orders confiscated approximately 400,000 acres of Confederate coastal property,…