Month: October 2025
Roswell Textile Mills Georgia Where Confederate Cloth Was Manufactured
Roswell was a Georgia textile town before the Civil War. Once the war started, the Confederate government contracted with the mills to produce a wide…
Confederate Gen. Albert Pike Statue Re-erected in Washington
Confederate Brigadier General Albert Pike statue was re-erected in Washington on Saturday following an executive order from President Donald Trump. The statue had been attacked…
Stan and Gus: Art, Ardor, and the Friendship That Built the Gilded Age by Henry Wiencek
Stan and Gus: Art, Ardor, and the Friendship That Built the Gilded Age by Henry Wiencek Farrar, Straus and Giroux pages 320 (2025) Stanford White…
Pete Hegseth’s Religious Advisor Rev. Doug Wilson: More on Civil War and Slavery
Back in August I posted several articles on Pete Hegseth’s religious advisor. Doug Wilson is the head of the Communion of Reformed Evangelical Churches (CREC)…
The First Casualties of the Civil War Were All Irish Immigrants—Was This a Coincidence?
Originally Posted April 18, 2011 by Patrick Young, Esq. Last week, The Immigrants’ Civil War looked at the reaction of immigrants to the attack on Fort Sumter. Maryann…
New Trailer Out on Garfield Assassination “Death By Lightning”
There is a new trailer out for the Netflix original series about the assassination of President James Garfield. The series premiers on November 6, 2023….
Somewhere Toward Freedom Sherman’s March and the Story of America’s Largest Emancipation by Bennett Parton
Somewhere Toward Freedom Sherman’s March and the Story of America’s Largest Emancipation by Bennett Parten published by Simon & Schuster 272 pages (2025) There was…
Carl Schurz Meets With Lincoln To Arm the Germans
Originally Posted May 26, 2011 by Patrick Young, Esq. The week after the Confederate attack on Fort Sumter in mid-April 1861, Carl Schurz insisted on meeting with Abraham Lincoln….
Roswell Georgia Monument to Women “Lost Mill Workers”
I have been to Roswell, Georgia on several occasions to view the ruined mill sites along Vickery Creek. In 1864, during his campaign to capture…
Immigrant Leader Carl Schurz to Lincoln: Stand Firm Against Slavery
Originally Posted March 29, 2011 by Patrick Young, Esq. When Lincoln ran for election to the presidency in 1860, he had a highly…