Jeannie Gourlay, a Scottish-born actress, was a player in the stock company of John T. Ford at his Washington theatre on the night President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated, 14 April 1865. In the post yesterday, a time line was presented which gave several key dates in the life of Jeannie Gourlay. After the assassination, Jeannie […]
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Other than being first cousins by virtue of their fathers being Civil War-veteran-brothers who were born in Berrysburg, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, Douglas Fairbanks and Nellie Ulman have little connection to each other – except that each has an additional connection to the Civil War beyond what is generally known or commonly discussed. Douglas Fairbanks, who […]
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