Today in History

[vitanola]

Today, April 9, 1865, the Rebellion finally collapsed, and the victorious General Grant graciously accepted the surrender of Rebel forces at Appomattox Court House.

 

[Bamaboots]

Today, April 9, 1865, the Rebellion finally collapsed, and the victorious General Grant graciously accepted the surrender of Rebel forces at Appomattox Court House.

 

[vitanola]

Today, April 9, 1865, the Rebellion finally collapsed, and the victorious General Grant graciously accepted the surrender of Rebel forces at Appomattox Court House.

 

[1mach1]

That really is a great song.

 

[vitanola]

That really is a great song.

Yes, that it is!

 

[ChiTownScion]

Yes, that it is!

The damn Secesh had their own version. But that was a common phenomenon in that War: versions and parodies of the same song.

 

[1mach1]

April 10, 1866, the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) is founded in New York City.

 

[Hurricane Jack]

Today, April 9, 1865, the Rebellion finally collapsed, and the victorious General Grant graciously accepted the surrender of Rebel forces at Appomattox Court House.

It's too bad things weren't so "gracious" during Reconstruction.

 

[Hurricane Jack]

The damn Secesh had their own version. But that was a common phenomenon in that War: versions and parodies of the same song.

Great band. Been around a long time.

150th Anniversary of Gettysburg:

 

[vitanola]

It's too bad things weren't so "gracious" during Reconstruction.

Well, the corrupt bargain which put my fraternity brother (DKE, Lambda) in the White House ended THAT.

How about an old veteran's ditty:

A century and a half on it still seems a bit harsh.

You would most probably find Polk Miller and the Old South Quartet's 1909 recording to be more congenial:

Polk Miller & His Old South Quartette:

Here we have a seventy-five-year-old Virgina veteran of the Rebellion singing the first great Southern anthem, accompanied by a quartet of elderly former slaves, with whom he successfully toured in Vaudeville for a decade, and whom it is reported that he pubilcally and privately treated with both honest affection and great respect. He was also an effective apologist for the Peculiar Institution, for his act included narratives of slave life and mutual affaction. Polk Miller in the 1890s did a great deal to make the nation uncritically accepting of such later media narratives as "Birth of a Nation", more's the pity.

 

[vitanola]

April 13, 1943

Today President Roosevelt dedicated our nation's memorial to one of our founding fathers, Thomas Jefferson.

 

[1mach1]

Butch Cassidy was born on this day in Beaver, Utah Territory, 1866.

 

[Hurricane Jack]

Butch Cassidy was born on this day in Beaver, Utah Territory, 1866.

Was he DKE, Lambda too?

 

[vitanola]

Was he DKE, Lambda too?

I doubt that he was a fraternity man.

Even so, it is difficult to overstate the influence of Greek societies on college life in the latter half of the nineteenth century. Many national and local chapters were founded in the 1830s, 1840s, and 1850s, and during the half century between 1860 and 1910 the great majority of graduates were fraternity men, with only the new western land grant colleges excepted.

The GI Bill largely eliminated the campus dominance of Greek societies, for grown men who had seen combat had little patience for sophomoric hazing rituals, and little time to waste in extra-curricular activities. The great changes of the 1960s further pushed fraternities into irrelevancy. In the 1980s, the 1979 moving picture "Animal House" proposed, for comic effect, a mode of fraternity life which has since been very widely emulated.

 

[1mach1]

On this day in 1865, John Wilkes Booth, an actor and Confederate sympathizer, fatally shoots President Abraham Lincoln at a play at Ford’s Theater in Washington, D.C.

 

[Fading Fast]

On this day in 1865, John Wilkes Booth, an actor and Confederate sympathizer, fatally shoots President Abraham Lincoln at a play at Ford’s Theater in Washington, D.C.

I have seen it reenacted in so many TV, movie and documentary versions that I have this weird Hollywood-amalgam image of the shooting blocking up my mind around the actual event.

 

[1mach1]

I have seen it reenacted in so many TV, movie and documentary versions that I have this weird Hollywood-amalgam image of the shooting blocking up my mind around the actual event.

You are right about that, FF.

Almost seems like a tall tale.

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[LizzieMaine]

Brooklyn 5 Boston 3

Boston 0 0 0 0 1 2 0 0 0 – 3 8 1
Brooklyn 0 0 0 1 0 1 3 0 x – 5 6 1

WP -- Gregg (1-0) LP -- Sain (0-1)

Boston: Sain, Cooper, Lanfranconi, and Masi
Brooklyn: Hatten, Gregg, Casey and Edwards, Bragan.
Umpires - Pinelli, Barlick, and Gore. T–2:20. A–26,623.

E–Torgeson (1), Edwards (1). DP–Boston 1. Culler-Ryan-Torgeson, Brooklyn 1. Stanky-Reese-Robinson. 2B–Brooklyn Reiser (1); Reese (1). SH–Culler (1); Masi (1); Sain 2 (2); Robinson (1). HBP–Litwhiler (1); Neill (1); Edwards (1).

 

[2jakes]

April 16:
The Yankees become the first team to make numbers a permanent part of the uniform. Numbers would become standard for all teams by 1932.

 

[LizzieMaine]

It'll be another seven years, though, before they get around to putting a logo on the front of the home jersey.