Discovering the Links: Helping Students Piece Together a Story from Alexandria National Cemetery
Just after midnight on April 24, 1865, the Massachusetts, a side-wheel steamer carrying some 300 soldiers, collided with the Black Diamond, a small propeller boat anchored in the lower Potomac River.
Learn Local, Think National: Connecting Alexandria National Cemetery to American History
“They didn’t even spell out her name!” This outraged exclamation from an 11th grader at T.C. Williams High School made me absurdly happy. Why? Because against all odds I had somehow manage