Faith • Grief • History • Hope
Faith • Grief • History • Hope
For the past few months, students at Washington and Lee University have been petitioning the University Administration to remove the Confederate Flags that are hung next to a statue of Robert E. Lee and also in Lee Chapel on the…
I have been vacationing in Florida the past few days for a family reunion but the Summer Challenge Continues. If you would like some background on the Summer Challenge, see this post. Although the challenge was for local sites I…
The Reverend Joseph Henry Thayer was born November 7, 1828 in Braintree Massachusetts to Joseph Thayer and Evelina Stetson Thayer. He studied at the Boston Latin School and graduated from Harvard in 1850. He went on to study theology at…
There is often confusion around what Memorial Day is for and as much as I like to gather with my family for a cook out in the back yard, the primary purpose is to memorialize those who have given the…
I recently had the honor of speaking to a group of veterans at the Soldiers Home located in Chelsea Massachusetts. I was invited by a group of veterans that belong to the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War…
“Our greatest central national evil, is a want of respect and reverence for man as man, as a being created in the likeness and image of God. It is the denial of manhood as the highest, noblest, and most precious…
This is the third is a series of essays on the role of the Town of Southbridge in the Civil War. As the war continued the amount of involvement of the local legislative bodies diminished as the Federal Government took…
In my previous post I recalled the events of the Town of Southbridge in the year of 1861. In today’s post the actions of the Board of Selectman will take center stage. Most votes of the Board of Selectman in…
Over the next few weeks I will be presenting a series of posts on the activities of the Town of Southbridge Massachusetts during the time of the American Civil War. This first installment covers the year of 1861. The Town…
When I began my study of the chaplaincy during the time of the American Civil War, the first person I came across was the Reverend Arthur Buckminster Fuller. He graduated from Harvard College in 1842 and then Harvard Divinity in…