Showing posts with label Mass 54th. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mass 54th. Show all posts
Tuesday, July 14, 2015

The Confederate Flag and Defending the Shaw (Massachusetts 54th) Memorial

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What a difference a century makes. The great Saint-Gaudens bronze on the Boston Common, depicting the white officer and black soldie...
Wednesday, February 18, 2015

Scenes From the First Official Amherst Black History Month Celebration, 2014

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The weather on the occasion of the first official Black History Month celebration in Amherst last year could not have been more different fr...

Second Annual Amherst Black History Month Celebration, New Select Board Proclamation

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For the second year in a row, the Town of Amherst, responding to the initiative of residents, has celebrated Black History Month with a cere...
Monday, March 5, 2012

"History Bites": Amherst History Lunchtime Lectures

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The lunchtime lecture series of the Amherst Historical Society and Museum (also posted on the calendar associated with this blog) is now und...
Friday, September 23, 2011

Honoring Amherst's African-American Civil War Soldiers: "Assault on Fort Wagner": "The Rush of the Garrison to the Parapet"

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The following engraving (20 x 23.6 cm) appeared in The Illustrated London News of September 26, 1863: The caption reads:  "The W...
Sunday, July 31, 2011

July Anniversaries: Lincoln Issues "Eye for an Eye" order, 30 July 1863

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When we "celebrate" the anniversary of the Civil War, we do many things: we honor the courage of the soldiers, we commemorate the ...
Saturday, July 30, 2011

Focusing Attention on Amherst's African-American Civil War Heroes

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Because I was away on our Prague program, I missed Memorial Day in Amherst and was unable to take part in the parade or other commemorations...
Monday, August 2, 2010

30 July 1863 Abraham Lincoln's Rules of Engagement

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I was interested to note that several lists of historical anniversaries chose, among Civil War events for this date, not the well-known Unio...
Tuesday, June 15, 2010

First Phase in Restoration of Amherst's Civil War Tablets Complete

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Scott Merzbach recently published this report on the work of the Historical Commission.  I'll follow up shortly with a posting of my own...
Saturday, July 18, 2009

18 July 1863: 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Launches Assault on Battery Wagner

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On this day in 1863, African-American members of the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry took part in the bloody assault on Fort Wagner (a...