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William D. Washington’s renowned painting, The Burial of Latané, poignantly captured a Confederate memory of the Civil War. The painting depicts the funeral of Confederate Captain William Latané who led Confederate forces to a…

Before the war, Abraham Lincoln expressed antislavery sympathies and recorded his hostility to slavery's further expansion, but he opposed abolishing the institution altogether. He continued this stance once elected president. However, as the war…

John Thompson’s celebrated poem, “The Burial of Latané,” epically portrays a Confederate victory at Hanover Courthouse, Virginia. In June of 1862, Confederate General J. E. B. Stuart led the 9th Virginia Calvary in a scouting…

Virginia's secession ordinance was created in April of 1861, after months of meeting as the Virginia Session. The Session was called on January 7, 1861, and met from February to May of that year. Many counties in the western part of the state felt…

Several Dakota Indians captured Mary Schwandt (later Schmidt), of a German farming family, then fourteen years old, near New Ulm, Minnesota, at the beginning of the Dakota War (1862). A Dakota woman named Snana (also called Maggie Good Thunder and…

John Mitchell Jr. is a freedman who was born a slave in Richmond, Virginia on July 11, 1863. John was a civil rights enthusiast, newspaper editor, and a politician. He was in charge of getting the news out to the public of hangings and lynch mobs…

This was a cartoon created by Richmond Whig and featured in the publication Harper's Weekly, which would go on to use the image on multiple occasions, the first one in 1868 and then once again in the year 1872. The cartoon itself showed an African…

Harper's Weekly was a popular American Political Magazine from 1857-1916. Many important events from U.S. history are documented in this magazine. Thomas Nast was responsible for publishing numerous cartoons for Harper's Weekly, such as this one.…