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Gallagher established that Sallie Pickett invented these letters from her husband. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5de24c909ab6b86728f3d9f9/1584542017427-H6HSZCC59BEDGE471LMZ/Michael+shaarsa+bench+with+caption.jpg Essay 5 https://www.confederatesinmycloset.com/essay-6 daily 0.75 2020-12-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5de24c909ab6b86728f3d9f9/1595091161719-NZA456KOEJL5L1MKSQRX/Newspaper%252Bphoto.jpg Essay 6 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5de24c909ab6b86728f3d9f9/1595091454545-1AAOCBOSHN5SFG7QOUOB/Newspaper%2Bphoto.jpg Essay 6 This Swords and Roses Debutante Ball took place in 1967 but such celebrations of the Confederacy are far from extinct. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5de24c909ab6b86728f3d9f9/1595091585902-WB0KZ79CCSQEEGBOJ6JQ/Debutante%2BBall Essay 6 https://www.confederatesinmycloset.com/essay-7 daily 0.75 2020-12-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5de24c909ab6b86728f3d9f9/1585488968752-Y3GOJUYERFDDQ5UGHO6T/Glen%2BDavid%2BAndrews.jpg Essay 7 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5de24c909ab6b86728f3d9f9/1590318655029-X93F3J78X4SBXE220808/confederate+protese+new+orleans.jpg Essay 7 Protesters in New Orleans for and against the removal of Confederate statues. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5de24c909ab6b86728f3d9f9/1590318758421-DM7MEA8N3OICB7F5EMQV/wedding+capture+2020-05-02+at+10.07.08+AM.jpg Essay 7 “Take them all down.” https://www.confederatesinmycloset.com/essay-8 daily 0.75 2020-12-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5de24c909ab6b86728f3d9f9/1587830836230-KMWR4WI285635AM9N5Q3/bless%252Bconfederated.jpg Essay 8 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5de24c909ab6b86728f3d9f9/1590318967059-D35V15KTE5SMUPNEXI9P/wedding+capture+2020-05-02+at+10.30.00+AM.jpg Essay 8 https://www.confederatesinmycloset.com/essay-9 daily 0.75 2020-12-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5de24c909ab6b86728f3d9f9/1590319338182-MJN4BOUPF2B3KE2EVY9J/Union+flag+at+ft+sumpter.jpg Essay 9 The flag that survived the bombardment of Ft. Sumter. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5de24c909ab6b86728f3d9f9/1590319479699-CL34VEZIEYP0NDBCAWAE/Ft+Sumpter+on+fire+painting.jpg Essay 9 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5de24c909ab6b86728f3d9f9/1585915059284-EAI9OHW8C2S51LI8MZR4/Silverware%2BZoom.jpg Essay 9 https://www.confederatesinmycloset.com/essay-10 daily 0.75 2020-08-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5de24c909ab6b86728f3d9f9/1585927213970-Y0ZUR40456EBB0LH492C/LP%2BWALKER%2Bhighlights.jpg Essay 10 https://www.confederatesinmycloset.com/essay-11 daily 0.75 2020-12-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5de24c909ab6b86728f3d9f9/1586003325146-EF79Y7063KU87TW0NI3Y/Confederates%252B12%252Bzoom.jpg Essay 11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5de24c909ab6b86728f3d9f9/1586003255851-TFMN2NZ4A0LE90M97OW1/978-0-8173-1153-7-frontcover.jpg Essay 11 https://www.confederatesinmycloset.com/essay-12 daily 0.75 2020-08-16 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https://www.confederatesinmycloset.com/essay-21 daily 0.75 2022-01-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5de24c909ab6b86728f3d9f9/1639485193537-65RV8OFZ962ZI5SBOR1I/DCg8stK%2BRbudaxQTk0VVEA_thumb_123c.jpg Essay 21 - Make it stand out David Kellogg Cartter played a pivotal role in Lincoln’s nomination; the jagged edge of this clipping is from my mother’s pinking shears https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5de24c909ab6b86728f3d9f9/1639514658408-6BVW2KBNBO28ES2DE0Z9/3.+battleflag1.jpg Essay 21 - Make it stand out During the January 6th insurrection, a photographer captured this image of a rioter carrying the Confederate battle flag inside the Capitol. The oil portrait on the wall is of Senator Charles Sumner, a Massachusetts abolitionist who was nearly beaten to death in 1856 for his anti-slavery views. Credit: Mike Theiler/Reuters. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5de24c909ab6b86728f3d9f9/1639337609090-897F2B3UEE1PZXWYJIVD/1_WIGWAM.jpg Essay 21 - Make it stand out The Wigwam, a two-story Chicago convention hall, was the site of the 1860 Republican Convention, where David Kellogg Cartter cast the deciding votes to nominate Abraham Lincoln as the presidential candidate of the Republican party. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5de24c909ab6b86728f3d9f9/1639341981031-2BCEC6OI1KNBK9KPAPW4/6_snuff2.jpg Essay 21 - Make it stand out U.S. Stamp News, David Kellogg Cartter’s portrait appeared on an 1875 revenue stamp issued for 16 oz. packages of snuff. According to U.S. Stamp News, he was one of a miscellaneous collection of men with government connections whose pictures adorned such stamps. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5de24c909ab6b86728f3d9f9/1639485424350-6G9LJ8ZB5TU6ZUIBYZ1J/Lincoln+Death+Alonzo+Key Essay 21 - Make it stand out After Lincoln was shot at Ford’s Theater, he was carried across the street to a boarding house where he died the next morning. Dignitaries and family members paid their respects throughout the night, a scene recreated by painter Alonzo Chappel in a monumental canvas that now hangs in a Chicago museum. Chappel crowds all 48 notable people who attended Lincoln’s death into a single scene by stretching the small bedroom to several times its historic size. To paint the faces, the artist worked from portraits of many of the visitors by the great Civil War photographer Matthew Brady. My granduncle David Kellogg Cartter appears (no.42) at far right. As Chief Justice of the District of Columbia courts, he spent hours that night in a room across the hall, interviewing witnesses to the assassination. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5de24c909ab6b86728f3d9f9/1639342144199-8APWOUSTQSZXT8BFPV4F/4_ADAM+GUROWSKI.jpg Essay 21 - Make it stand out Emigre abolitionist gadfly Adam Gurowski. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5de24c909ab6b86728f3d9f9/1639484993794-8W3449PD7Q4VX4FNP1Y1/Lincoln+death Essay 21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5de24c909ab6b86728f3d9f9/1639514588445-2T8BH019SLGFS4PDZI80/2_DKC+photo.jpg Essay 21 - Make it stand out David Kellogg Cartter in an undated photograph. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5de24c909ab6b86728f3d9f9/1639342219944-0DGYSMF9QMLS1VWXJLW1/5_Adam+Grrowski+diary.jpg Essay 21 - Make it stand out Gurowski’s memoir was so blistering in its criticism of members of Lincoln’s administration that he was sued for libel. The case ended up in David Kellogg Cartter’s court – where Gurowski was promptly acquitted. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5de24c909ab6b86728f3d9f9/1639485686567-S2PN5R353CY4ESVNAZSH/court+story.jpg Essay 21 - Make it stand out A headline in a 1930s bar association journal recounts how the Washington, D.C. courts were purged of Confederate sympathizers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5de24c909ab6b86728f3d9f9/1639342368713-6LKHZOPZHD8AHCZ3JT8L/lincoln+death+bed.jpg Essay 21 - Make it stand out The boarding-house bedroom where Lincoln died.