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Cooper Wingert

Cooper Wingert

@cooperwingert

Historian, PhD candidate @Georgetown / predoc @RichardsCenter / https://t.co/a84FR32IJ1

Washington, DC Katılım Ağustos 2014
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Cooper Wingert@cooperwingert·
@MKB1234 @NCWM @KentStateUPress The best primary source is Lt Herman Schuricht’s diary, who describes Jenkins’s brigade at Peace Church. I also talk about Jenkins at Peace Church in my book, The Confederate Approach in Harrisburg
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EJ@e_joseph_murphy·
For those unfamiliar with NEPA, this is how in the middle of nowhere LeRaysville is:
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EJ@e_joseph_murphy·
Wait a minute…Frederick Douglass spoke in LeRaysville in 1858?!?! LERAYSVILLE???!!?!!!?
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H-CivWar@HCivwar·
“In short, ONWARD TO CHICAGO has much to offer both Underground Railroad scholars as well as general readers,” writes @cooperwingert in his H-CivWar review of Larry A. McClellan’s new book. @siupress h-net.org/reviews/showpd…
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Cooper Wingert@cooperwingert·
@jamesharrigan Thank you! Not in the AoP, but in the Dept of the Susquehanna, formed to defend the state capital in Harrisburg.
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James Harrigan@jamesharrigan·
@cooperwingert fascinating! I had no idea there were Black soldiers in the Army of the Potomac.
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Cooper Wingert@cooperwingert·
Excited to share my article in the latest issue of Civil War History: muse.jhu.edu/pub/14/article… I introduce new archival evidence revealing that two African American companies participated in the Gettysburg Campaign. (1/2)
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Cooper Wingert@cooperwingert·
Their experiences, I argue, demonstrate the continuing importance of federalism and state citizenship to free Black Northerners during the Civil War. (2/2)
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Will Comben@willdoeshistory·
This is fantastic! I hope to make use of similar geo software for my project, visualising enslaved women’s escapes to better understand the gendered nature of fugitivity.
Cooper Wingert@cooperwingert

Excited to share my new digital history project, an interactive GIS map of cases under the 1850 Fugitive Slave Act. It accompanies my June 2023 @JournAmHist article. Thanks to @processhistory for the chance to share how I created my dataset and map!

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