“…in vain the Quaker pleaded his neutrality.”
Catherine Mary Powell Noland Cochran (1814-1895) wrote a memoir and diary of her dramatic experiences during the Civil War. HerContinue Reading
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“Westward Ho” along the Underground Railroad
Because of high land prices in New Jersey and Pennsylvania, by the 1730’s and 1740’s, Quakers began moving south intoContinue Reading
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Ulysses S. Grant and Loudoun County Quakers
“During all of the trying winter of 1860-1, when the Southerners were so defiant that they would not allow within their borders the expression of a sentiment hostile to their views, it was a brave man indeed who could stand up and proclaim his loyalty to the Union.” – Ulysses S. Grant (1822-1885) quoted from his Memoirs (Chapter 16)
Carolyn Taylor and her account of the burning raid
Carrie Taylor gives a riveting account of the Union army’s 1864 sweep through northern Virginia, in which they burned barns,Continue Reading
Nest of Abolitionists 