Posted in Just A Bite, tagged city park movement, civil war in nc, megan kate nelson, new bern nc, ruin nation on August 14, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
“The city park movement, instigated by Andrew Jackson Downing, Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux in the 1840s and 1850s, demonstrated that Americans needed to balance city life with healthful interactions with nature…. “In the context of the landscape of war, which transformed forests into camp villages seemingly overnight and often seemed to wipe out [...]
Posted in On This Day, tagged 25th massachusetts volunteer infantry, civil war in nc, pamlico river, union pvt d l day, whiskey rations on July 10, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
On this day in 1863: Private D.L. Day, Co. B, 25th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, writes in his journal at Hills Point on the Pamlico River: “This being an isolated post and several miles from any commissary or sutler, the officers feared it would be terribly infected with malaria; having regard for the health and welfare [...]
