The Investment
“My dear,” she said, “I do appreciate your desire to build me a new, comfortable home on this place of beauty, but there is another call for our money which is far greater. Continue reading The Investment
Tag: #American Civil War
Ben Hur: A Tale of the Christ
In 1880 he published Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ, a novel set during the time of Jesus Christ in the Roman Empire… Continue reading Ben Hur: A Tale of the Christ
Civil War Christian Commission Is Founded
Wounded men lay in the blazing sun in an open field at Gettysburg, pleading for relief. John C. Chamberlain offered assistance. “I soon found myself driving stakes with a rock and twisting every spare corner of their bedding over them. … Continue reading Civil War Christian Commission Is Founded
Just Be Thankful…
With Thanksgiving only a day away, I am reminded that in the middle of the American Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln, at Sarah J. Hale‘s persistence, established Thanksgiving as a National Holiday for the last Thursday of November 1863. “Even in … Continue reading Just Be Thankful…
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