Author: Patrick Young
Southold N.Y. Civil War Monument Photo Tour on Long Island’s North Fork
Southold is a developing town on Long Island’s hopping North Fork. Five decades ago it was a rarely visited remote rural community. Today, that is…
Civil War Institute: Interpreting Race at Battlefields and Historic Sites
The Civil War Institute did breakout sessions and one that I went to had National Park Service personnel and the director of a site in…
Civil War Institute: Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain Beyond Little Round Top With Ron White
On the first day of the Civil War Institute at Gettysburg College Ron White was one of the featured speakers. He is very well known…
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…