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While the Union’s victory during the largest battle of the Atlanta Campaign proved consequential, the leadership of Jewish Americans in the Union Army, like Colonel Salomon, was pivotal in these battles.
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This article in The Jewish News, which highlights Jewish War Veterans of the US, notes Col. Salomon’s calmness in battle. Col. Robinson refers to Col. Salomon as one of the “most deserving officers.”
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After the Battle of Atlanta, Union Colonel John Cleveland Robinson praised Colonel Edward S. Salomon, a Jewish, German-American immigrant who commanded the 82nd Illinois, one of the Union Army's "German" regiments.
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#OTD 1864, Union victory at the Battle of Atlanta opened the door for General Sherman's March to the Sea, later capturing Savannah.
📷: Siege of Atlanta. ca. 1888. LOC.
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“The Father of Waters again goes unvexed to the sea,” President #Lincoln said after the fall of #Vicksburg.
#OTD 1863, Confederate Gen. Pemberton surrendered to Union Gen. Grant after a 47-day siege of Vicksburg, a monumental victory for the Union.
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📷: LOC
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Let Pickett's Charge serve as a reminder that even with the #Union victory, civilians like the #Biggs & #Brian families struggled to recover & repair their post #CivilWar lives.
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📷: Henry Alexander Ogden. Gen. Pickett taking the order to charge from Gen. Longstreet. LOC.
Brian repaired his farm and sold it in 1868. He then moved to Gettysburg, where he worked as a hostler at a hotel.
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📷: The Battle of Gettysburg. N.Y.: Printed by Wm. C. Robertson. LOC.
Brian submitted a claim of $575, but the damages of Pickett's Charge were not covered, & he received only $15. The $15 was to pay for the 1.5 tons of hay that fed the Union horses.
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📷: Gettysburg, battlefield of, scene of Pickett's charge. LOC.
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After the Union's consequential victory at #PickettsCharge, #Brian & his family returned to find their home & barn destroyed, & they had lost all their crops & livestock.
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📷: Gettysburg, Pa. The Bryan house on 2d Corps line, near scene of Pickett's Charge. LOC.
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Union General Alexander Hays used Brian's home as headquarters in the middle of the Union's defensive position on Cemetery Ridge.
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📷: Brig. Gen. Alex Hays. United States. LOC.
Like other Black members of the Gettysburg community, Brian, his wife Elizabeth, & their five children fled with news of the Confederate invasion.
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📷: Edwin Forbes. Picketts charge from a position on the enemys line looking toward the Union lines. LOC.
Abraham Brian [also spelled Bryan] was a free Black American born in Maryland in 1804, moved to Gettysburg in 1840, and bought 12 acres in 1857.
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📷: Abraham Brian Farm. NPS.
#OTD 1863, the final Confederate assault of the Battle of #Gettysburg, known as Pickett's Charge. But our focus is the Brian Farm, atop Cemetery Ridge.
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📷: Detroit Publishing Co., Copyright Claimant, & Publisher Detroit Publishing Co. Gettysburg from Cemetery Ridge. LOC.
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Biggs helped exhume and rebury over 3000 Union soldiers from their battlefield graves into their final resting place at the Gettysburg cemetery.
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📷: Soldiers' National Cemetery
Gettysburg National Military Park. NPS.
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Biggs received a little more than $1300 for the loss of livestock, furniture, food, & 92 acres of crops. But he would be pivotal in the creation of the Soldiers’ National Cemetery.
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📷: Map of Cemetery. Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library & Museum.
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After the battle ended, the Biggs family returned to find their home & farm ruined as the Confederates set up a field hospital on part of the farm, burying 45 soldiers in his fields.
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📷: Basil Biggs & Family Farm. PBS.
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As news of a Confederate invasion came in, so did the fears of being kidnapped & sold into slavery. Biggs and his family made the difficult choice to flee their home and farm.
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📷: Willcox, William H. Map of the battle of Gettysburg, Pa., July 1st, 2nd & 3rd. LOC.
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Basil Biggs, born a free Black man, was a veterinarian & reported active agent on the Underground Railroad. He and his wife Mary & seven children moved to Gettysburg in 1858.
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📷: Basil & Mary Biggs. Adams County Historical Society/Smithsonian Magazine.
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#OTD 1863, the Battle of #Gettysburg begins. Located 10 miles north of the Mason-Dixon line, let’s focus on the civilians affected by one of the most significant battles of the #CivilWar
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📷: Battle of Gettysburg., ca. 1887. May 16. LOC
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Alexander Gardner's photograph of a Black American soldier kneeling next to the remains of those who died at Gaines' Mill & Cold Harbor shows just how brutal this battle was.
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📷: Reekie, John, & Alexander Gardner. A burial party on the battle-field of Cold Harbor. LOC.
While the Union's defense held Lee's offense at Boatswain's Creek, the heavy loss and defeat led Maj. Gen. McClellan to abandon the Union's advance on Richmond.
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📷: Unburied dead on battlefield. Reekie, John, photographer. Battlefield of Gaines' Mill, Va. LOC.
In this battle, Gen. Lee and his 57,000 Confederate troops attacked Porter and his 34,000 Union forces.
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📷: Waud, Alfred R. , Artist. After Gaines Mill Sunday June 29th. LOC.
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#OTD 1862, the Seven Days' Battle continued at the Battle of Gaines' Mill in Hanover County, Virginia. 🧵
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📷: Sneden, Robert Knox. Plan of the Battle of Gaines' Mill, Virginia, fought June 26th. LOC
(While dated June 26th, the battle was fought on the 27th.)
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