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Posted in U.S. Grant
South Bend Museum Opens Exhibit on Grant’s VP Schuyler Colfax
The History Museum in South Bend, Indiana has opened a new permanent exhibit telling the story of Ulysses S. Grant’s vice president Schuyler Colfax. Colfax…
Fr. Ryan, “Poet Priest of the South,” Denounces “Richmond Irish Radical Republicans” Sept 1868
Fr. Abram Joseph Ryan was one of the most visible Catholic priests in the South. A firm Confederate, he served as an army chaplain. After…
General John Logan Demands that Seven Republican Senators Who Voted Against Impeachment Be Expelled from Party
At the same time that the Johnson Impeachment was going on, Republicans were assembling in Chicago for their National Convention. On May 19, 1868 General…
Posted in Suffrage
Mississippi Republicans Demand Racial Equality in 1869 Party Platform
When the Mississippi Republican Party met in July 1869 to consider its new platform, it was one of the first political party conventions in American…
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