Jon-Erik Gilot, Espy Post Curator
2nd Saturday Civil War Series: “After I am Gone…” The Battle for Gen. Philip Sheridan’s Legacy & Memory with Jonathan Noyalas
Andrew Carnegie Free Library & Music Hall 300 Beechwood Avenue, Carnegie, PA, United StatesIn Person in the Lincoln Gallery at ACFL&MH Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/9370579279Meeting ID: 937 057 9279 Following the death of General Philip H. Sheridan in the summer of 1888, fierce debates arose over how Sheridan, regarded as one of the Union’s “three great generals” during the Civil War and a divisive figure, should be remembered. “After I Read More
2nd Saturday Civil War Series: The War That Never Was: Great Britain, the U.S., and the Trent Affair with William Vodrey
Andrew Carnegie Free Library & Music Hall 300 Beechwood Avenue, Carnegie, PA, United StatesIn Person in the Lincoln Gallery at ACFL&MH Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/9370579279Meeting ID: 937 057 9279 The U.S. Navy's seizure of two Confederate diplomats, James Murray Mason of Virginia and John Slidell of Louisiana, from a British Royal Mail steamship off the coast of Cuba in November 1861 set off an international firestorm of controversy. The crisis even threatened, Read More