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Talented politician of his generation. People talk about the age of Andrew Jackson but in many ways we should talk about the age of Simon Cameron. This is a man whose political skills were undeniable and the man who built a political machine that lasted far beyond any of those instructed by his contemporaries. He was a man who mastered his moment and when you think he was one of 1799, the last year of George Washingtons life he died in 1889 and during that 90 year. He really rose to the top of first pennsylvania and then americas political elite by mastering his moment. It goes Something Like ...

At the January meeting of the Civil War Round Table of Gettysburg, aptly-named Battlefield Guide Chris Army shared the story of the Pipe Creek Line. On the morning of July

The Civil War Round Table of Gettysburg welcomed historian Cooper Wingert, author of “The Underground Railroad in South Central Pennsylvania,” to its recent gathering on the evening of Thursday, May

Since its inception in 1957, The Civil War Round Table of Gettysburg has elected officers in April. For the first half-century or so, the presidential term limit was one year.

VA History Office  Refugees crossing behind U.S. Army lines, circa 1862. Photo courtesy of the Library of Congress.  The American Civil War began in April 1861 as a response to preserve the United States. Within a month, enslaved African Americans seeking shelter behind Union lines shifted the war’s objectives. Many U.S. Army leaders, such as Major General Benjamin Butler, were unwilling to return these individuals to their disloyal enslavers. Hoping to deny the Confederacy of its labor force, U.S. officials recognized these self-emancipated people and harbored them as “contraband of wa...