Volume 14 , Issue 51

Duchess of Weaselskin

It is beginning to look a lot like a Winter wonderland up here in the Southwest Colorado Rockies. Starting late Thursday evening of last week, running through Sunday, December 16, 2012, here in Southwest Colorado, North of Bayfield, we have accumulated over two feet of snow that has compacted down a few inches. The digital photo on the left is an image of Vallecito Lake looking southeast towards the dam as the snow clouds curl, hover over the mountain tops. You got to love Winter time in the Colorado Rockies, huh?

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100 Years Ago Today - 17 December 1912

One hundred years ago today, 17 December 1912, Tuesday, in The Washington Times, page 4, we found an article concerning "Only Seven Stick To Suffrage "Hike," Thirty Lose Heart. The article is below.

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NW Okie's Corner

It was one week to go before Christmas Eve, and all through the house, some took a movie break, while the cat chased the mouse. Oh! Shucks! That is not quite right, but what the hey! We went dashing to town through the snow. What can I say!

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1865 - The Fight On The Slavery Abolition Bill

We look back to Friday, 13 January 1865, page 2 of the Daily Dispatch, out of Richmond, Virginia, for information on the U.S. House fight on the Slavery abolition bill in the Yankee House. The bill for the abolition of slavery in the United States, was thought by Washington correspondents, that it would pass. In the Senate, Monday (9 January 1865), a bill passed 27 to 10 liberating the wives and children of negroes in the Yankee army. In the House, a debate took place on the abolition bill, of which the following is a portion:

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History of Rockbridge County, Virginia - Strife With the Red Man

We are continuing where we left off last week when we were speaking of stories of "Strife With the Red Man" in the Rockbridge County, Virginia area. Did we speak of the assemblage at Big Spring last week? If not, it begins this week's continuation of the Red man's strife in Virginia.

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From Grant's Army - 1865

In the same newspaper out of Richmond, Virginia, dated 13 January 1865, page 2 of the Daily Dispatch, we found this headline that mentions a letter from Grant's Army, dated the 7th January 1865:

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1865 - Movement On Foot Among Prominent Philadelphians

In The Daily Dispatch, dated 20 january 1865, page 2, out of Richmond, Virginia, we find that a movement was on foot among prominent Philadelphians, of both political parties, to give a handsome dinner to those Democratic Congressmen who should vote in favor of the proposed constitutional amendment prohibiting slavery.

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13th Amendment To U. S. Constitution

We all should know that the Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was the Abolition of Slavery. The House Joint Resolution proposed the 13th amendment to the Constitution, January 31, 1865, and ratified on December 6, 1865.

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Discover The Civil War At National Archives

Discovering the Civil War share little-known facts and extraordinary discoveries from the Civil War holdings at the National Archives. The video also features rarely-seen original footage from Civil War reunions in 1917 in Vicksburg, MS, and 1938 in Gettysburg, PA. These materials were shared for the first time in the exhibition, the most extensive display ever assembled from the National Archives. To see more of the exhibit.

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Lincoln - The Movie (2012)

The following clip is Steven Spielberg's version of Lincoln (2012), the official full trailer [HD].

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