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Friends of Cherry Hill Foundation Youth Representative

Nicholas Teply will be the Friends of Cherry Hill Youth Representative through this summer and the following school year. Nicholas attends George Mason High School in Falls Church. He is one of several high school youth representatives who will participate at 23 various Falls Church government boards and commissions, civic and nonprofit groups. He and his family have participated in various Cherry Hill events and he expressed an interest in working with FofCH for his assignment as a youth representative. The program is sponsored by Citizens for a Better City (CBC). It provides opportunities for students to become involved in their community though participation in civic organizations. Nicholas will participate in Cherry Hill activities, including board meetings and special projects. We are so glad to welcome Nicholas to the Friends of Cherry Hill Foundation. Additional Note: George Mason High School will become Meridian High School as of July 1, 2021. (Also on that date, Thomas Jefferson Elementary School will be renamed Oak Street Elementary School.)

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Do you recognize this gentleman? He is Frederick Law Olmstead, a famous American landscape architect of more than 500 projects including Central Park in New York and the grounds of the Biltmore Estate in Ashville, North Carolina. In late 1861, he left his position as director of Central Park and went to Washington, DC to serve as Executive Secretary of the U.S. Sanitary Commission (a precursor to the American Red Cross). Olmstead attended to the wounded during the Civil War and headed a medical effort in New Kent County, VA. He raised money for the US Sanitary Commission and also helped recruit soldiers for the African-American regiment of the U.S. Colored Troops in New York. Prior to that, in the late 1850s, he visited parts of the South, writing and publishing articles about the antebellum culture and its deleterious social and economic conditions. 1864 – May 5th or Cinco de Mayo is the date when the Mexican Army was victorious over France in the FrancoMexican War at the Battle of Puebla. It is a minor holiday in Mexico, compared to the manner in which it is celebrated In the U.S.

Was the military a lucrative career during the Civil War?

Rear admirals at sea earned $5,000 per year in the Union Navy; on shore duty, their their salary dropped to $4,000. Confederate General Robert E. Lee earned approximately $7,250 per year. That amount included $301 base pay, $108 for rations (for 12 rations/day), a $32 fodder allowance (for four horse rations/day), $63 seniority pay ($9/month for each five years in the service, including those years he served in the United States Army), and $100 as an army commander. In contrast, the average Confederate private earned $11 per month until 1864 when wages were increased by $7 per month. Union privates earned about $2 more per month. Image: Union Rear Admiral James Glascow Farragut. Farragut was promoted to full admiral in 1866, becoming the first U.S. Navy officer to hold that rank. He is perhaps best remembered for his order at the Battle of Mobile Bay, most often paraphrased as "Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!"

Sources: Schuyler, Hartley & Graham Illustrated Catalog of Civil War Military Goods. First published in 1864; Military Pay | American Battlefield Trust (battlefields.org); Soldiers Pay in The American Civil War (civilwarhome.com);