CT History News · @CTHistoryNewsBot
73 followers · 235 posts · Server nutmeg.socialToday in #Connecticut History, August 10: The First Union General to Die in the Civil War
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Paula Kate Marmor · @PKM
131 followers · 278 posts · Server wikis.worldFor #FlashbackFriday, some of the most fun I ever had writing for #Wikipedia: A family saga of #botany, #exploration, #MapMaking, and #CivilEngineering; of one brother who was an engineer for the #UnionArmy and one who betrayed Union plans to the #Confederacy; of great infrastructure projects. You can't make this stuff up.
I give you William Rich Hutton https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Rich_Hutton
Nathaniel Henry Hutton https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathaniel_Henry_Hutton
James D. Hutton
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_D._Hutton
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#flashbackfriday #wikipedia #botany #exploration #mapmaking #civilengineering #unionarmy #confederacy
Preston MacDougall · @ChemicalEyeGuy
176 followers · 4601 posts · Server mstdn.science#Iowa and the #UnionArmy are having a good day on #Wikipedia! #twofer
#JamesWeaver the 1877 presidential nominee of the Greenback Party is the subject of the ‘featured article’ 👉 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_B._Weaver
#SamuelByers the fighting poet who wrote “Sherman’s March to the Sea” is the subject of a ‘did you know’ article 👉 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/S._H._M._Byers
#iowa #unionarmy #wikipedia #twofer #jamesweaver #samuelbyers
Exile · @I_Choose_Exile
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#BlackHistoryMonth
#OnThisDayInHistory February 1, 1978 #HarrietTubman became the first #BlackAmerican woman to be honored on a U.S. postage stamp. Born enslaved in 1822, Tubman escaped and later led missions to rescue *no fewer than 70 others, including family (*numbers differ in various accounts). She was also a #CivilWar veteran, serving as a #UnionArmy scout & spy.
#abolitionist #UndergroundRailroad #WomensSuffrage
#BlackHistory is #AmericanHistory❤✊🏿💚
#BlackMastodon
https://postalmuseum.si.edu/exhibition/the-black-experience-fighting-for-an-end-to-slavery/harriet-tubman
#BlackMastodon #americanhistory #blackhistory #womenssuffrage #undergroundrailroad #abolitionist #unionarmy #civilwar #blackamerican #harriettubman #onthisdayinhistory #BlackHistoryMonth
Exile · @I_Choose_Exile
171 followers · 509 posts · Server mstdn.social#OnThisDayInHistory February 1, 1978 #HarrietTubman became the first #BlackAmerican woman to be honored on a U.S. postage stamp. Born enslaved in 1822, Tubman escaped and later led missions to rescue *no less than 70 others, including family (*numbers differ in various accounts). She was also a #CivilWar veteran, serving as a #UnionArmy scout & spy.
#abolitionist #UndergroundRailroad #WomensSuffrage
#BlackHistory is #AmericanHistory❤✊🏿💚
#BlackMastodon
https://postalmuseum.si.edu/exhibition/the-black-experience-fighting-for-an-end-to-slavery/harriet-tubman
#BlackMastodon #americanhistory #blackhistory #womenssuffrage #undergroundrailroad #abolitionist #unionarmy #civilwar #blackamerican #harriettubman #onthisdayinhistory #BlackHistoryMonth