Tag Archives: Civil War

Susie Baker King Taylor: Caring to Make a Difference

Posted on September 30, 2020 by lhsittig@verizon.net

By guest blogger Millicent H.B. Hughes While many people may associate St. Simons Island, Georgia, with laidback southern beach living, the island played an important role in the Civil War. In April 1862, when the Union Army reclaimed the Sea … Continue reading →

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Mary Edwards Walker:One of a Kind

Posted on November 1, 2016 by lhsittig@verizon.net

Which prestigious award has been issued to 3,514 men, but only 1 woman? That would be the Medal of Honor, bestowed upon service personnel for gallantry in action during wartime. Signed into law by President Abraham Lincoln during the Civil … Continue reading →

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Florena Budwin and her 500 Sisters by Linda Harris Sittig

Posted on February 29, 2016 by lhsittig@verizon.net

  One hundred and fifty-two years ago Florena Budwin faced the agonizing truth that her husband was dead and she was on the verge of being captured as a Yankee prisoner of war. The previous year, in 1864, at the … Continue reading →

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Ellen Canavan – part two, by Linda Harris Sittig

Posted on October 30, 2014 by lhsittig@verizon.net

 It was in the summer of 1998 that I stood in front of my mother’s family mausoleum in New Cathedral Cemetery, Philadelphia. The cemetery is located in the Kensington section of Philadelphia, once the textile epi-center of the United States, … Continue reading →

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Ellen Canavan, Irish Entrepreneur by Linda Harris Sittig

Posted on July 3, 2013 by lhsittig@verizon.net

One hundred fifty years ago the Civil War was raging. Thousands of men had already given their lives for a cause they fervently supported, and one woman had risen from total obscurity to the ranks of unimagined riches through the … Continue reading →

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