Author: Patrick Young
Civil War Institute: General Benjamin Butler Challenged the Elite of New England and the Nation
I am at the Civil War Institute in Gettysburg this weekend. I’ll try to give a little look at what is going on here. There…
Northfield Cemetery Stamford, Connecticut
Northfield Cemetery in Stamford, Connecticut has some of the oldest graves in that city. Begun as a formal cemetery in 1787, there are burials there…
Fulton Ferry Brooklyn, the Civil War, the Draft Riots, and Walt Whitman-Photo Tour
In researching the Civil War and Reconstruction in New York City, I keep coming across Fulton Ferry. I have mentioned it a dozen times for…
Wide Awake: The Forgotten Force that Elected Lincoln and Spurred the Civil War by Jon Grinspan
Wide Awake: The Forgotten Force that Elected Lincoln and Spurred the Civil War by Jon Grinspan published by Bloomsbury Publishing (2024) I have been very…
Frederick Douglass Statue at New-York Historical Society
Frederick Douglass stands at the top of a stair leading into the New-York Historical Society. The statue was installed in 2011 just as the United…
The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War by Erik Larson
The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War by Erik Larson published by Crown 592…
The Irish Fighting 69th Monument at Calvary Cemetery in Queens
I visited the monument erected by the veterans of the most famous Irish American regiment of the Civil War, the Fighting 69th (69th NYVI) at…
Rye New York African American Cemetery Where USCT & 54th Massachusetts Rest
Right off of I-95 in Rye, New York lies a forgotten cemetery where for 120 years local African American families had buried their dead. The…
Erik Larson’s New Book on Fort Sumter Debuts at #1 on NY Times Bestseller List
Erik Larson, one of the most popular history writers over the last half century, has his new book on the crisis over Fort Sumter debut…
Second Bull Run’s Oldest Monument
People viewing this week’s monument might think they recognize it as the First Bull Run monument, but they would be wrong. This is the Second…