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unusual facts about ''Bombardment of Fort Sumter, Charleston Harbor, Charleston, South Carolina, 1863'', William Aiken Walker, 1886, Gibbes Museum of Art



4th Minnesota Volunteer Infantry Regiment

The regiment participated in the Third Battle of Chattanooga from November 23–27 1863, then was on garrison duty at Bridgeport and Huntsville in Alabama, until June 1864, having Veteranized during the spring of 1864.

Alfred Rehder

Alfred Rehder (4 September 1863, Waldenburg, Saxony - 25 July 1949) was a horticulturist and taxonomist who worked at the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University.

Anders Uppström

A journey in 1860 to Rome, Milan, and Wolfenbüttel, financed by the sons of his childhood patron Petré, resulted in Fragmenta gothica selecta (1861) and another journey to the Ambrosian Library in Milan in 1863 to study the so-called Ambrosian Gothic manuscripts led to Codices gotici ambrosiani, which was published posthumously by his son Anders Erik Wilhelm Uppström in 1868.

Andrew Wilson

Andrew P. Wilson (1886–after 1947), British director, playwright, teacher, and actor

Angelo Ribossi

an oil canvas, depicting Filippo Maria Visconti con Beatrice di Tenda (exhibited in 1870 at Parma); La vigilia del Natale(exhibited in 1872 at Milan); Il cuoco mal pratico, L' Ammaliatrice, and Il vino del padrone (exhibited in 1880 at Turin); Cuoco mal pratico, Passatempo istruttivo, and Momento di buon umore (exhibited in 1881 at Milan); Momento opportuno (exhibited in 1883 at Milan); Il Babau and Prete artista (exhibited in 1886 at Milan).

Arthur Knight

Arthur George Knight (1886–1918), Canadian recipient of the Victoria Cross

Arthur Procter

Arthur Thomas Procter (1886–1964), lawyer, judge and politician in Saskatchewan, Canada

Bahá'í pilgrimage

The House of Bahá'u'lláh in Baghdad, also known as the "Most Great House" (Bayt-i-A'zam) and the "House of God," is where Bahá'u'lláh lived from 1853 to 1863 (except for two years when he left to the mountains of Kurdistan, northeast of Baghdad, near the city of Sulaymaniyah).

Bartley Campbell

Campbell was declared insane in September 1886 and died in the State Hospital for the Insane in Middletown, New York on July 30, 1888.

Belém Palace

In 1886, new public works were completed under the orders of King Carlos, under the direction of architect Rafael de Silva Castro and decorated by Leandro Braga, Columbano and João Vaz, to be the residence after his marriage with Princess Amélie of Orléans.

Boys and Girls High School

A new building was planned on the east side of Nostrand Avenue between from Halsey and Macon Streets, designed by Superintendent of Buildings James W. Naughton, but by the time it opened in 1886, enrollment had increased to the point where it was decided to use this building as the girls' high school and to and build a separate building for the boys.

Burt-Stark Mansion

A banker from Charleston, South Carolina, Andrew Simonds, bought it from Hoyt, and in 1862 sold it to Armistead Burt, who owned it when Jefferson Davis used the building.

Canterbury Cathedral

It was built in 1886 by Henry Willis and subsequently rebuilt by the same firm in the mid 20th century.

Carolina Rifles Armory

, Charleston, South Carolina, was a late 19th-century headquarters for a semi-private military group, but today only the façade remains, facing an annex for the Charleston Library Society.

Charles Eloi Demarquet

Among his notable descendants are his own oldest son, Carlos, an Ecuadorian politician who served as Quito's cantonal leader (Jefe Politico) from 1886 to 1892, and the French historian and Academician Jean-Jacques Chevallier.

Charles Trevelyan

Sir Charles Trevelyan, 1st Baronet (1807-1886), civil servant and Governor of Madras

Charleston Charlies

This club - Charleston's second Triple-A franchise - stayed only those few months and relocated to Atlanta, Georgia, for the 1962 season to become the Atlanta Crackers.

Conrad Ansorge

He was born in Buchwald, Silesia, studied at the Leipzig Conservatory between 1880 and 1882, and under Franz Liszt in Weimar in 1885 and 1886.

Debacq

Charles-Alexandre Debacq (1804-1863), a French historical and portrait painter.

Ebenezer Dumont

Dumont was elected as a Unionist to the Thirty-eighth Congress and was reelected as a Republican to the Thirty-ninth Congress (March 4, 1863–March 3, 1867).

First National Bank of Omaha

Justice William J. Brennan, Jr. wrote that the 1863 law permitted a national bank to charge interest at the rate allowed by the regulations of the state in which the lending institution is located.

Foxton, New Zealand

When this line opened in 1886, Foxton's status as a port slipped, and this position deteriorated further when the WMR was incorporated into the government's national rail network in 1908.

Franz Gruber

Franz Xaver Gruber (1787–1863), Austrian composer, organist, and creator of the Christmas carol Silent Night

Friedrich Hieronymus Truhn

Friedrich Hieronymus Truhn (born November 14, 1811 in Elbing, † April 30, 1886 in Berlin) was a 19th-century German conductor, composer and music writer who worked mainly in Berlin, Danzig, Elbing and Riga.

Girl with Ball

The updated Betty Grable-type subject, was a fashionable glamor figure that Lichtenstein used for a symbolic value that ranks her with "iconoclastic female figures, including Manet's Olympia, 1863, Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, 1907 and de Kooning's three series of Women".

Henry A. P. Carter

His brother Joseph Oliver Carter (1835–1909) married Mary Ladd (1840–1908), daughter of the founder of early trading company Ladd & Co. William Ladd (1807–1863).

Henry Chance Newton

Works attributed to Richard Henry include Monte Cristo, Jr (burlesque melodrama 1886); Jubilation (musical mixture 1887); Frankenstein, or The Vampire's Victim, a parody of the Mary Shelly novel Frankenstein, presented at the Gaiety Theatre, London, in 1887; and Opposition (a debate in one sitting 1892).

Isaac E. Holmes

Born in Charleston, South Carolina, Holmes attended the common schools, received private tuition, and graduated from Yale College in 1815.

Jacob D. Leighty

He served as a member of the State house of representatives from 1886 to 1888, and later was elected as a Republican to the Fifty-fourth Congress (March 4, 1895 – March 4, 1897).

Jean Elichagaray

Jean Baptiste Pierre Eugène Elichagaray (September 3, 1886 – June 8, 1987) was a French rower who competed in the men's eights event at the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm.

John Hartley Durrant

John Hartley Durrant (10 January 1863 in Hitchin – 18 January 1928 in Putney) was an English entomologist who specialised in Lepidoptera.

John Hearn

John Gabriel Hearn (1863–1927), a Quebec businessman and political figure

Karl Friedrich Reiche

He worked as a professor in Dresden (1886-1889) and Constitución, Chile (1889-1896).

Lacie Lybrand

Lybrand graduated from Lexington High School in 2000 and was already working for SCANA, a Fortune 500 company before she graduated.

Lakeview College of Nursing

An affiliation with the Illinois Teacher's College in Charleston (now Eastern Illinois University) provided additional on-campus instruction.

Looking Down Yosemite Valley, California

Based on sketches made during a visit in 1863, Bierstadt paints the valley from a vantage point just above the Merced River, looking due west with the prospect framed by El Capitan on the right, and Sentinel Rock on the left; the spire of Middle Cathedral Rock is visible in the distance.

Lord of Francis

The current owner is Jeffrey Gibson (1943-) who got the territory handed over after the death of his grandfather Laird Henry Gibson (1886–1981).

Manning, South Carolina

It is part of South Carolina's 6th congressional district which since January 1993 has been represented by Jim Clyburn.

Mentor Graham

William Mentor Graham (1800 - 1886) was an American teacher best known for tutoring Abraham Lincoln and giving him his higher education during the future US President's time in New Salem, Illinois.

Native Sons of the Golden West

James W. Marshall Monument Marshall Gold Discovery State Historic Park, Coloma: In 1886, the members of the Native Sons of the Golden West, Placerville Parlor #9 felt that the "Discoverer of Gold" deserved a monument to mark his final resting place.

Norman Walker

Norman W. Walker (1886–1985), British-American raw food and alternative health advocate

Port Royal Island

Port Royal Island is a Sea Island in Beaufort County, South Carolina.

Samuel Bernard Dick

He then commanded the Fifth Regiment, Pennsylvania Militia, and proceeded to New Creek, West Virginia, in July 1863.

Solomon Caesar Malan

After serving various curacies, he was presented in 1845 to the living of Broadwindsor, Dorset, which he held until 1886 During this entire period he continued to augment his linguistic knowledge; he was able to preach in Georgian, on a visit which he paid to Nineveh in 1872.

South Carolina's 1st congressional district special election, 1971

The 1971 South Carolina 1st congressional district special election was held on April 27, 1971 to select a Representative for the 1st congressional district to serve out the remainder of the term for the 92nd Congress.

Stumme

Georg Stumme (29 July 1886 – 24 October 1942), a German General of World War II

Thomas Renny-Tailyour

Colonel Thomas Francis Bruce Renny-Tailyour CB CSI (8 June 1863–10 June 1937) was a British Army officer and surveyor.

Tom Barrett

Leslie Stuart (1863–1928), English composer born as Thomas Augustine Barrett

William H. Randall

Randall was elected as an Unconditional Unionist to the Thirty-eighth and Thirty-ninth Congresses (March 4, 1863 – March 4, 1867).

WZMJ

Clemson University sports will continue to air, and Lexington High School sports, but the Carolina Panthers will move to WWNU.


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