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Kent Masterson Brown Wins Emerging Civil War Book Award for “Meade at Gettysburg: A Study in Command”. 

Kent Masterson Brown has won the Emerging Civil War Book Award for his new volume Meade at Gettysburg: A Study in Command. According to the…

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Posted in Abolitionists African Americans Emancipation & Reconstruction Andrew Johnson

August 8th Celebrated in Tennessee as Day of Liberation of Slaves

Today was celebrated in Tennessee as the beginning of the end of slavery in the state. While Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation did not end slavery in…

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Posted in U.S. Grant

Grant Bicentennial Commemoration August 13 & 14 in Quincy, Illinois

The Grant Bicentennial will be marked on Saturday, Aug. 13 and Sunday, Aug. 14 in Quincy, Illinois, where Ulysses S. Grant first marched off to…

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Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin’s Confederate Apologist Appointee Resigns

Last week I wrote about Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin’s naming of Ann Hunter McLean of Richmond to the Virginia Board of Historic Resources. McLean went…

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“Rites of Retaliation: Civilization, Soldiers, and Campaigns in the Civil War” Wins Organization of American Historians Book Award

The 2022 Organization of American Historians award for Civil War and Reconstruction Books went to  Lorien Foote of Texas A&M University for her Rites of…

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Chris Mackowski of Emerging Civil War Honored by American Battlefield Trust

Chris Mackowski, a familiar name to Civil War history students, was honored by the American Battlefield Trust in July for his work with history teachers….

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Immigrant Soldier of the Civil War to Be Honored July 30 in Richwood, Mn.

An immigrant soldier who served in the Union Army of the Potomac will have his grave dedication on Saturday at Richwood Lutheran Cemetery in Richwood,…

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Posted in Elections Lincoln Videos

Video Talk on Politics and Elections in the Union Army of the Potomac

I recently watched this video from the Winter Lecture Series of 2022 delivered at Gettysburg National Military Park. It looks at political agitation and campaigning…

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Posted in USCT Veterans

Beaufort, South Carolina Grand Army Hall Restoration Completed

The Grand Army of the Republic Hall in Beaufort, South Carolina, was recently restored and was rededicated several weeks ago. The hall is located at…

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Town of Lincolnville, South Carolina Added to Reconstruction Era National Historic Network

Lincolnville, South Carolina was created by African Americans in 1867, just two years after the Civil War, as a place where Black families could live…

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