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Gettysburg Battlefield Civil War Quilt by ChadQuilt http://t.co/e57bMzmGVj via @Etsy /cc @laureneleonboym

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Gómez

Gettysburg Pensilvania USA

Barnes

Anyone visiting us in April? Spring - we hope - will be in full swing and we should start seeing a greener battlefield and blossoming trees. A great time to visit!

Robinson

Gettysburg College: Future of Civil War History Conference - Battlefield Trauma - C-SPAN Video Library http://t.co/uGV2pJjNPX #cw150

Matsuda

Spring is in the air...finally! We've noticed more visitors coming to Gettysburg and on the Battlefield. If you had the chance to come to Gettysburg this weekend, where would you visit? Would it be a place on the battlefield, a museum, shop, restaurant?

Gairola

Here's some info on Steve Alexander, portraying Gen. George Custer again at our reenactment:

"Steve Alexander is the closest thing to George Armstrong Custer, since Custer himself walked the earth." February 9, 2013 testimonial by Colonel French L. MacLean, Author of "Custer's Best: The Story of Company M, 7th Cavalry at the Little Bighorn."
Actor, Author, Living Historian: Steve Alexander has written, ridden and relived Custer's life from minute details to the monumental moments more than any man who has ever portrayed the Buckskin Cavalier, earning him the title, “Foremost Custer Living Historian” proclaimed by the United States Congress and is acknowledged by both the Michigan and Ohio Senates for his lifetime work. He is the author of the 2010 quintessential biography "G. A. Custer to the Little Big Horn" and has appeared in more than forty docudramas and films as the General. Most recently the History Channel's "Custer's Last Man," “Command Decisions,” “History Hogs: On The Trail with General Custer” and “Little Big Horn – The Untold Story.” Both A&E’s Biography of Custer and Bill Kurtis New Explorers “Betrayal at Little Big Horn,” received awards for the top historical presentations in 1998 & 99.
Easily recognizable to the people of Nebraska, Kansas and South Dakota, Steve has also portrayed "The Boy General" in New Rumley, Ohio (the birth site) and participated in ceremonies at West Point Military Academy. From Colorado to the Canadian Rockies he's traveled by train, steamboat and horseback reliving a past few people experience from the pages of history books. Consulted by universities and historical institutions, and often called upon to speak for the Smithsonian Associates' "Teaching History" workshops. Steve was chosen to write the texts of the new historical markers in Tontogany, Ohio and Hunterstown, Pennsylvania annually representing General Custer at Gettysburg, Appomattox and other Civil War events. In 2005 he was honored by representing the state of North Dakota during the Presidential Inaugural Parade in Washington, D.C. He and his wife Sandy own and reside in the original restored Bacon-Custer home in Monroe, Michigan, the General’s adopted hometown.
Instrumental in reestablishing the Annual Custer’s Last Stand Reenactment in Hardin, Montana, he now participates in the Real Bird Reenactment of the Little Big Horn on the Original Battlefield each year, during the Anniversary weekend. Steve is the recipient of the Custer Battlefield Historical and Museum Association’s Editor’s Choice Award and duly honored by Joe Medicine Crow, Tribal Historian bestowing the Crow Indian name Ika’ Dieux’ Daka’, “Son of the Morning Star” a name previously held by only one man, George Armstrong Custer.

Taylor

The famous Red Barn on the battlefield at Gettysburg. http://t.co/fGf6mBwjDn #history #travel

Nakashima

Taking a little spring break trip with grandson Nathan this week. Going to hit some Civil War battlefield sites in VA. He loves history so this should be interesting and fun.

Clark

Gettysburg: Home to a president & Hall of Fame pitcher. Find out more. http://t.co/GAvoUwRWeC #amerhist #newbook #kindle

Iyengar

GETTYSBURG BATTLEFIELD 1 http://t.co/C3zhI2Pi5t via @TwitPic

Parker

6am run thru gettysburg battlefield. #perspective @ General George G. Meade Monument http://t.co/C2tZvOUIha

López

Dining in and Gettysburg Battlefield

Campbell

If you could spend one night investigating any location in the world, where would it be?

Chakraborty

"what is the latest monument added to gettysburg national battlefield?" http://t.co/M4nc79wWSh

Perry

headed to shiloh tenn tomorrow and tour the battlefield and enjoy the tenn river. got to go by the bloody pond and just look around and think about all the men that died there and think about how this country needs to stick together and do what is right for the country as a whole instead as certain groups wants their on ways, we need to do what is right and let god know that we love and beleive in him

Takahashi

One more day... yay!!!

Cook

Just planned out our 24-day summer vacation cross-country road trip!

Nguyen

// The Gettysburg Battlefield is basically the American Hogwarts.

Rogers

Spent the day with Jamie Lee and Ally Culp - exploring Gettysburg battlefield, devils den and the haunted covered bridge - a beautiful day with cool breezes that the girls were convinced were spirits playing beside us :)

Morales

North Carolina memorial at the #Gettysburg battlefield. #landscape #statue http://t.co/pkmyO3H80H

Cruz

Heading into DC tommorrow , cherry blossoms at peak!!! It's been cold here in the morning. Went to Fredricksburg battle field yesterday. Had a sunken road as did Antietum. Union took a pounding!!! Inept Generals. Next battlefield will be Chancellorsville ,The Wildeness, and Spotsylvania Court House. These were battles that happened between April and May 1863. Chancellorsville was General Lee's finest moment, from here he goes to Gettysburg .

Katō

A GUIDED TOUR OF THE GETTYSBURG BATTLEFIELD
FRIDAY, May 3 from 9:00 am - 5:00 pm
(returning to Bethesda/Rockville parking location by 5pm)
Go to http://www.womansdemocraticclub.org/ by Monday, April 15. Questions? Contact Ellie Kleinman at EDKleinman@aol.com or 301-806-3799.

Azoulay

The Complete Gettysburg Guide..http://t.co/wR9trNRF2Q

Dahan

FREE AT LAST,FREE AT LAST, FREE AT LAST. THANK GOD IAM FREE AT LAST. WEEKEND.......

García

BATTLEFIELD GETTYSBURG 5 http://t.co/B55bO6Uk5o via @TwitPic

Sasaki

At Artillery Ridge campground with Troops 36, 611, and 537 for a joint trip to Gettysburg Battlefield. We have over 60 Scouts and leaders. Almost our own regiment.

Harris

At Gettysburg Battlefield.

Hashimoto

So far the team has been enjoying our trip to Gettysburg ,and we still have two days of investigations to come. We woke up at 6:00am this morning to visit the battlefield before the tourist started to arrive ,and we also visted Sachs Bridge last night. Our overnight investigation of the Tillie Pierce house will be tomorrow ,and there will be several pictures posted once we get back. Gettysburg is truly an amazing experience.

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Levi

Redemption at Gettysburg: Clark Foreman and the Civilian Conservation Corps

Clark Foreman, born and bred in Atlanta, Georgia, educated at the University of Georgia and at Harvard, was from all outward appearances a typical son of the South. He was a man of privilege and class from an old-line aristocratic southern family. But he was anything from typical.

The Great Depression found Clark Foreman working in the Department of the Interior, under Secretary Harold Ickes. His title: Adviser on the Economic Status of the Negroes. His duty was quiet simply to, “get jobs for Negroes.” In that capacity, he filled his staff with African American workers, hiring one of the first black office secretaries at the Department of the Interior. Although working for the Department, he scoured the entire government, looking for opportunities for African American workers. One of the first agencies to come under Foreman’s review was the Civilian Conservation Corps.

The Civilian Conservation Corps, (a familiar topic here) was established by the Emergency Conservation Work Act, signed into law by President Roosevelt on March 31, 1933. In that act, there was a special provision, “That in employing citizens for the purposes of this act no discrimination shall be made on account of race, color, or creed.” This simple provision was the reason for Clark Foreman’s review. Although the army employed both white and black unskilled labor in segregated camps, the army wasn’t assigning any black skilled workers or black officers to African American camps.

Dr. Louis E. King / PD NARA In a conversation he recalled later, Foreman told of his frustrations in trying to get the army to comply with his wishes. But Foreman found a work around. In the CCC camps that were on National Park Service lands, the Secretary of the Interior had purview to appoint civilian workers since the Park Service fell under the Interior Department’s control.

The next job that came available? Park archaeologist at Gettysburg. Dr. Louis E. King, an archaeologist educated at Columbia, got the nod. Hiring a black historian at Gettysburg, the National Park Service countered, was absurd. It would upset the townspeople. It would cause riots.

Foreman’s reply was brilliant:

Well now look, my grandfather fought at Gettysburg to keep the Negroes slaves. And your grandfathers fought there to liberate them. If there's any more blood to be shed on this issue, there's no better place for it than Gettysburg. So I think you should go ahead, get the job done and give it to Dr. King."

There weren't any riots. In fact, Dr. Louis E. King was highly praised for his efficient and excellent work.

Captain E. P. Howell

/ PD Wikimedia Just who was the grandfather Clark Foreman spoke of, though? One of his grandfathers (although he wasn’t at Gettysburg) was none other than Evan Park Howell. E. P. Howell, the son of a wealthy planter who owned about 30 slaves at the time of the war, fought in General Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson’s Valley Campaign, the battle of Chickamauga in Tennessee, and outside the gates of Atlanta, defending his home city. Evan Park Howell grew up in big house slavery – he was a direct benefactor of slavery. He fought on battlefields across the South to maintain the inequality of the races, and here was his grandson, 75 years later, fighting for the equality of all on another battlefield – Gettysburg.

That’s redemption. That’s sublime.