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Congaree National Park
In the park service brochure on People in the Floodplain the section on escaped slaves was marked with a yellow highlighter by an Interior Service…
Killing Pat Cleburne: Know Nothing Violence
by Patrick Young, Esq. – Blogger Join The Immigrants’ Civil War on Facebook Pat Cleburne had left his job as a druggist behind and become a lawyer…
Patrick Cleburne: The Irish Confederate & The Know Nothings
by Patrick Young, Esq. – Blogger Join The Immigrants’ Civil War on Facebook When Pat Cleburne went for a walk with his friend Thomas Hindman on…
The Road Was Full of Thorns: Running Toward Freedom in the American Civil War by Tom Zoellner
The Road Was Full of Thorns: Running Toward Freedom in the American Civil War by Tom Zoellner published by The New Press (Sept. 2025) I…
Oak Hill Cemetery G.A.R. Section Vineland, N.J.
I posted recently about the large monument in Downtown Vineland, New Jersey. On the same trip I visited the nearby Oak Hill Cemetery in the…
Wayside Panels May be Removed at Bull Run
Manassas National Battlefield Park, where the first major battle of the Civil War was fought, has two panels that have been called into question under…
Pete Hegseth’s Spiritual Leader With Lost Cause Views of Civil War Led Prayers at Pentagon in Feb.
At the end of February, 2026, right before the United States attacked Iran, Secretary of Defense (War) Pete Hegseth had Reverend Doug Wilson lead a…
Brief Submitted to Supreme Court in Defense of the Reconstruction Right to Birthright Citizenship
On February 25, 2026 two historians submitted an amicus brief in a case challenging President Trump’s Executive Order withdrawing Birthright Citizenship from children born in…
Kingsley Planation’s Brochure and Exhibits Are Under Review By Interior Department for Their Slavery Depictions
Timucuan Preserve is next to Jacksonville in Florida. In is a giant wetland along the St. John’s River and the Atlantic Ocean. Contained within it…
Best-Selling New Civil War Books of 2025
According to Civil War Monitor are best-selling books on the Civil War published in 2025 through October: Lincoln’s Lady Spymaster, by Gerri Willis (Harper) $28.99…