Ostensibly exploring the practice of law before the internet. Heck, before good highways for that matter.
Thursday, September 14, 2017
The Big Picture: 4th Nebraska National Guard, September 14, 1917.
Saturday, August 26, 2017
Monday, August 21, 2017
The Big Picture: Co. C, Sixth Nebraska Infantry, August 21, 1917.
Thursday, March 30, 2017
The Cheyenne State Leader for March 30, 1917: Guardsmen mobilzing at Ft. D. A. Russell.
Ft. D. A. Russell was being used for Guard mobilization this time. It hadn't been a year prior for the Punitive Expedition.
Tuesday, May 4, 1999
Thursday, May 4, 1899. The Battle of Santo Tomas and the remarkable Elanor Pray.
I think you will be interested in the photo of our premises here even if it does have to be curved to make the thing come together. Fred took it from the roof of the new P[ost] O[ffice] and the building half completed in front of us belongs also to the P.O."
Little known in the US, Pray's heavily photographed letters have made her well known in Russia, as her long residence there, 1894 to 1930, meant that she's chronicled, and preserved, an entire epic in Russia's history which would otherwise have seen much lost. She apparently liked the region, as she stayed on after the death of her husband in 1923 and only left in 1930 when her employer closed its facility in the area, which was also experiencing hardening Stalinist repression.
From Vladivostok she moved to China and was interned in World War Two by the Japanese, becoming part of a 1943 prisoner exchange which resulted in her return to the US. She smuggled her papers out in the process. She died in 1954 at age 85.
Manuel won the Kentucky Derby.
Monday, May 1, 1899. Prisoners of the Philippine Republic.
Tuesday, April 27, 1999
Tuesday, April 27, 1899. The Battle of Calumpit
The Battle of Calumpit (Filipino: Labanan sa Quingua), alternately known as the Battles of Bagbag and Pampanga Rivers) concluded with U.S. forces under Arthur MacArthur Jr. combating Filipino forces under General Antonio Luna. U.S. forces were comprised completely of state militia units, essentially the equivalent of today's National Guard, somewhat, those being the 20th Kansas Volunteers, the Utah Volunteer Light Artillery, the1st Montana Volunteers, the1st Nebraska Volunteers and the 51st Iowa Volunteers. All were probably mustered to fight against the Spanish in Cuba, and not the Filipino's in their native land.
U.S. forces prevailed with Medals of Honor, under the original standards, going to Colonel Frederick Funston, Private (later First Lieutenant) William B. Trembley, and Private Edward White.
The Filipinos, interestingly enough, grossly over reported American losses.
A terrible tornado struck:
A statute of Grant was unveiled in Philadelphia.