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Confederate Catechism
The Confederate Catechism was written by Lyon Gardiner Tyler, the son of President John Tyler. Lyon Tyler was a prominent educator and a well-known critic…
Camden New Jersey Civil War Memorial
I drove down to Camden, New Jersey at the start of November to see the Camden Civil War Memorial. The Historical Marker Data Base has…
General Charles Harker’s Grave at Swedesboro New Jersey
As every New Jersey school kid knows, the southern part of the state was part of a still-born Swedish Empire back in the 1600s. The…
Greetings from Asbury Park Civil War Monument on the Jersey Shore
When you first see the Civil War monument below you might think it is in South Carolina. It is ringed with tropical plants, maybe even…
Grand Army of the Republic Memorial Toms River New Jersey
Toms River is the county seat of Ocean County, New Jersey. The county was only created a decade before the Civil War. The population had…
Thomas Nast Cartoon on the Threat to Black Suffrage from Confederates and Northern Democrats
Thomas Nast was America’s most powerful political cartoonist throughout the Civil War and Reconstruction. A strong supporter of the Republican Party during the 1860s, he…
Nathan Bedford Forrest Statue Was Shrouded in this 1905 Illustration
This illustration, “Forrest Again in White Shroud,” was published in the newspaper Memphis Press-Scimitar on April 30, 1905. The illustration appeared just a month before…
Queens Civil War Soldiers and Sailors Monument
While Queens is sometimes described as “the least Civil War monumented borough,” there are several memorials in this part of New York City. One is…
Letter Promoting U.S. Grant to “General of the Armies” Finally Released to the Public
Many of you know that in 2022, during the Bicentennial of Ulysses S. Grant’s birth, many people got behind promoting Grant to the highest rank…
Adelbert Ames, the Civil War, and the Creation of Modern America by Michael Megelsh
Adelbert Ames, the Civil War, and the Creation of Modern America by Michael Megelsh published by Kent State University Press (2024) is an interesting biography…
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