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Displays at Antietam That Are Under Review for Removal
We are looking at the displays and literature from around the National Parks having to do with the Civil War and Reconstruction that have been…
Andrew Johnson National Historic Site Panels That May Be Taken Down
Andrew Johnson was the president in the last weeks of the Civil War. After the Confederate armies had surrendered, he became the principal architect of…
National Park Service Police Are Working With ICE to Arrest Immigrants
After years of outreach to Latino communities to welcome this underserved groups, the National Park Police is teaming up with ICE to arrest and deport…
St. Patrick’s Day in the Irish Brigade
by Patrick Young, Esq. – Blogger Join The Immigrants’ Civil War on Facebook Although Ireland is one of the smallest countries in Europe, Irish Americans form the…
Pat Cleburne: Arresting a General, Becoming a General
by Patrick Young, Esq. – Blogger Join The Immigrants’ Civil War on Facebook Civil War regiments were the products of a democratic society. Many officers were…
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…