Showing posts with label Rutherford B. Hayes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Rutherford B. Hayes. Show all posts
Wednesday, February 5, 2025

Recollections of 1883 Flood at Fremont, Ohio

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  1883 Flood  Recollection Lucy Elliot Keeler, a resident of Fremont, wrote about the 1883 flood: "Before dawn on the Sunday morning of...
Tuesday, November 30, 2021

Frederick Douglass and the Fight for Freedom

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  Some weeks after President Rutherford B. Hayes left office, he received a letter marked “personal”. It began, “I express to you and to M...
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Friday, January 10, 2020

A Breed Apart: The 8th Kentucky Cavalry

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John Van Meter  The  8th Kentucky Cavalry was formed during the late summer of 1862 and mustered into Confederate service in Septe...
Thursday, July 20, 2017

Governor Rutherford B. Hayes and the Lincoln and Soldiers Monument at the Ohio Statehouse

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Guest Post by David Boling, Ohio Statehouse Tour Guide In early January,1872   Rutherford B. Hayes was completing his term as Ohio...
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Sunday, September 23, 2012

Retired Naval Commander Donates Civil War Escutcheon of General Manning Force

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Ken Juul and General Manning Force's Civil War Escutcheon This past week, during a visit to the Hayes Presidential Center, ...
Saturday, August 4, 2012

Civil War Battle of South Mountain Subject of Lecture by Brian Jordan August 19th at the Hayes Presidential Center

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Brian Matthew Jordan The Battle of South Mountain (Sept. 14, 1862) was the precursor to Antietam. It also was the conflict in which Ruthe...
Monday, July 30, 2012

Army of the Ohio Completes Preservation Fundraising For the 23rd Ohio Battle Flag: Announces Adoption of the 25th Ohio Battle Flag

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23rd Ohio Volunteer Infantry Battle Flag with Members of the Army of the Ohio Courtesy of Sgt. 1st Class Joshua Mann Sgt. 1st Class Joshua...
Sunday, April 29, 2012

Rutherford B. Hayes Exhibit on Display at The Ohio State University

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President Rutherford B. Hayes Legendary Ohio State University football coach Woody Hayes would not have had a place to work had it ...
Thursday, December 31, 2009

William King Rogers and Duluth, Minnesota's Skyline Parkway

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Columbus, Ohio native and ordained minister, William King Rogers was an early law partner of and later personal White House secretary to Pr...
Monday, January 19, 2009

Madame Marie Selika: First African American to Perform at the White House

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Madame Marie Selika Williams When President Teddy Roosevelt invited the Tuskegee educator Booker T. Washington to the White House in 1901, t...
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Saturday, February 16, 2008

White House Easter Egg Roll

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White House Easter Egg Roll [Courtesy of the Library of Congress] Slowly, silently, the White House gates opened. In dashed a group ...
Monday, January 28, 2008

Colonel Everton J. Conger and Lincoln's Assassin

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In the early morning hours of April 27, 1865, Colonel Everton J. Conger, a Secret Service agent, raced through the streets of Washington, D....