Forgotten history of Ellicott City & Howard County MD
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Civil War
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Monday, November 4, 2019
Ellicott's Mills "provost" in 1863
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During the Civil War there was competition among the war correspondents to get the story and get it to their publisher. One reporter played ...
Monday, March 25, 2019
Gen. Lew Wallace and his retreating troops in 1864 drawn by 11 year old Edwin Abbey
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Edwin Abbey (1852-1911), who would gain fame painting large murals while living in England, visited his father’s sister and her husband D...
Monday, February 11, 2019
Gen. E. B. Tyler - captured at Jug Bridge then escaped to Ellicott's Mills... or not
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During the Civil War, Brigadier General Erastus Bernard Tyler (1822-1891) was sent to defend Baltimore in June 1863, and was involved in ...
Sunday, January 14, 2018
Joe Nick - from slave to Civil War soldier
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During the Civil War, Joe Nick drove a pair of horses with a covered wagon from his master Reuben Rogers' ("a lawyer and farme...
Monday, July 3, 2017
The Baltimore or Winans Steam Gun - Civil War
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At the start of the Civil War, a bullet proof "steam gun" was patented by Charles Dickinson and worked on in Ross Winans foundry i...
Monday, May 29, 2017
Decatur Dorsey - slave to Medal of Honor recipient
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Decatur Dorsey (1836-1891) was an enslaved African American in Howard County when he signed up in 1864. He would become a Sergeant in the ...
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