The Great Meteor of 1860

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The Great Meteor of 1860

06-02-2010, 11:33 PM

I've seen several references to this story today at various online sources, and I thought it might be of interest to some here. It correlates one of Whitman's poems with a Frederic Church painting and other period accounts to verify an Earth-grazing meteor occurrence in the summer of 1860.

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My blog, following one Illinois community from Lincoln's election through the end of the Civil War through the articles originally printed in its two newspapers.
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