Tag: hale

• Letter to Lincoln (1863)

  

  Newport native Sarah Josepha Hale appeals to President Lincoln in the midst of the Civil War, and instigates an official national holiday!

  Marek

  18 November, 2012

  1860s, Civil War, Newport, politics, Sarah Josepha Hale, SOURCE=Library of Congress

  Abraham Lincoln, congress, hale, Lincoln, Sarah Joseph, Thanksgiving

• John Hale Statue (Concord)

  

  John P. Hale was a radical anti-slavery Republican during the Civil War.

  Marek

  27 October, 2012

  1800-1899, Concord, Dover, NH State House, politics, Rochester, statues

  anti-slavery, civil war, hale, john p. hale, republican, senator