Tag: 1865
Facial Hair Friday: Amnesty for this beard, 100 years later
This week saw the 150th anniversary of the first Battle of Manassas, with hundreds of reenactors and spectators ignoring the extreme heat and coming to the Virginia battlefield. There was another, stranger Civil War anniversary today. On July 22, 1975, the House of Representatives joined the Senate in voting to restore full American citizenship to [...]
Posted by Hilary on July 22, 2011, under - Civil War, Facial Hair Fridays, petitions, Unusual documents.
Tags: 1865, American citizenship, Battle of Manassas, civil war, Lexingon VA, Robert E. Lee
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