Civil War digest This week 150 years ago May 20-26, 1863
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Major Highlights for the Week
Wednesday, May 20, 1863
Confederate President Jefferson Davis was improving after being ill for the past several weeks.
Federal Major General Ulysses S. Grant contemplated the problems he was facing regarding a direct attack on the city of Vicksburg, Miss.
We Love Our Soldiers (present & past)
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- Published on Sunday, 19 May 2013 10:38
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At Stearns History Museum
Stearns History Museum and Research Center welcomes all active duty military personnel and their families to visit for free between Memorial Day and Labor Day 2013.
To kick-off this program, the Stearns History Museum is mounting a special We Love Our Soldiers (present and past) Event from 10 a.m.-noon Saturday, June 1. This free event offers tours of the museum, and will include root beer floats and an outdoor scavenger hunt on the plaza (or indoor in the gallery if it rains).
Forest City was a town with a future
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Text excerpted from The Meeker REA Pioneer, October 1975.
Reprinted from the Tri-County News, Thursday, Sept. 18, 2003.
Forest City has a rich historical background. It was first visited by the white man in 1855. The beauty of the landscape along the Crow River enticed many of the early settlers to make Forest City and the surrounding area their new home.
As the new settlers arrived in 1856, they took up claims, erected log cabins, and began clearing the land.
There are a lot of “firsts” in Forest City town and township:
Civil War digest: This week 150 years ago MaYy 13-19, 1863
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Major Highlights for the Week
Wednesday, May 13, 1863
Two corps of Major General Ulysses S. Grant’s army moved towards Jackson, Miss., while Major General John A. McClernand’s corps headed north to Clinton. At Jackson, Confederate General Joseph E. Johnston could only muster 12,000 men and knew that Grant’s army stood between him Major General John C. Pemberton’s army.
Skirmishes occurred at Mississippi Springs, along with Baldwin’s Ferry and Hall’s Ferry, all in Mississippi.
Dr. Charles O’Connor helped Eden Valley grow in early days
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Spring is the time for birth. And when it comes to births, no one in Eden Valley history probably did it more than Dr. Charles (D.C.) O’Connor, who served the city from 1911-60.
At one time Dr. O’Connor was credited for helping give birth to as many as half the residents of Eden Valley. Remember, those early years of O’Connor’s practice were times when expectant mothers did not go to the hospital to have babies; they delivered them in their homes.