Search engine for discovering works of Art, research articles, and books related to Art and Culture
Javascript must be enabled to continue!
Thomas Morris Chester: Civil War Dispatches
View through CrossRef
Thomas Morris Chester (1834–1892) pursued a number of careers, including teaching, law, and journalism. Born in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, he attended an academy designed for Black Americans in Pittsburgh, studied and later taught in Liberia, and lived and worked in England for some time at the start of the Civil War. During the early years of the war he worked as a recruiter and then went on to bear arms to protect Harrisburg during the 1863 Gettysburg campaign. In August 1864 he joined the Philadelphia Press as a correspondent.
Title: Thomas Morris Chester: Civil War Dispatches
Description:
Thomas Morris Chester (1834–1892) pursued a number of careers, including teaching, law, and journalism.
Born in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, he attended an academy designed for Black Americans in Pittsburgh, studied and later taught in Liberia, and lived and worked in England for some time at the start of the Civil War.
During the early years of the war he worked as a recruiter and then went on to bear arms to protect Harrisburg during the 1863 Gettysburg campaign.
In August 1864 he joined the Philadelphia Press as a correspondent.
Related Results
Thomas Morris Chester: Civil War Dispatches
Thomas Morris Chester: Civil War Dispatches
Thomas Morris Chester pursued a number of careers, including teaching, law, and journalism. As the first and only African American journalist to cover the Civil War for a major dai...
Thomas Morris Chester’s Civil War Dispatches 1864
Thomas Morris Chester’s Civil War Dispatches 1864
Thomas Morris Chester pursued a number of careers, including teaching, law, and journalism. As the fi rst and only African American journalist to cover the Civil War for a major da...
The Case of the Dishonest Scrivener: Gouverneur Morris and the Creation of the Federalist Constitution
The Case of the Dishonest Scrivener: Gouverneur Morris and the Creation of the Federalist Constitution
At the end of the Constitutional Convention, the delegates appointed the Committee of Style and Arrangement to bring together the textual provisions that the Convention had previou...
Thomas Morris Chester: Civil War Dispatches
Thomas Morris Chester: Civil War Dispatches
Thomas Morris Chester (1834–1892) pursued a number of careers, including teaching, law, and journalism. Born in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, he attended an academy designed for Black ...
Justice and Humanity: W. H. Auden’s War Writing
Justice and Humanity: W. H. Auden’s War Writing
As one of the outstanding representatives of English poetry in the 20th century, W.H. Auden is famous for his profound war poems and his reflection of the context of The Times. Thi...
Gouverneur Morris
Gouverneur Morris
Remembered primarily as the author of the American Constitution’s preamble, Gouverneur Morris (b. 1752–d. 1816) was also the author of a few essays, a thousand-page long private di...
Natural Resources and Civil War Onset —— The Impact of Resource Types and Regional Variations
Natural Resources and Civil War Onset —— The Impact of Resource Types and Regional Variations
Existing studies generally acknowledge a strong correlation between a nation’s natural resource endowment and the onset of civil wars. However, how do different types of natural re...
The Spanish Civil War through the Female Gaze: A Valley of Betrayal (2007) by Tricia Goyer
The Spanish Civil War through the Female Gaze: A Valley of Betrayal (2007) by Tricia Goyer
War literature is a highly gendered genre, having historically been almost exclusively associated with men. This resulted in the exclusion of women writers from the canon of war li...