Author: Patrick Young
Copperhead Mayor Fernando Wood and Union Gen. John Dix Graves in Manhattan
When I mention the Trinity Church cemetery in Manhattan, most New Yorkers will tell me about visiting there as a child, typically to see the…
The 14th Amendment’s “Disqualification Clause” Was Drafted to Protect the Republic from Violent Overthrow
[25 Civil War Historians File Brief on Disqualification Clause] The 14th Amendment is among the most cited Amendments to the United States Constitution, but the…
Amistad Monument New Haven, Connecticut
New Haven is mostly known as the place where Yale University occupies the center of the city. In the 1800s, it had significantly more importance….
Roscoe Conkling A Civil War Politician in Madison Square Park in NYC
I approached Madison Square Park in New York City from the South East side, where Madison Avenue hits East 23rd Street in Manhattan. There are…
Longstreet: The Confederate General Who Defied the South by Elizabeth Varon
Longstreet: The Confederate General Who Defied the South by Elizabeth Varon published by Simon & Schuster (2023) Back in the 1960s when I first started…
21st Connecticut Volunteer Infantry Regiment Monument in New London
The 21st Connecticut Volunteer Infantry Regiment was organized in Norwich, Ct. in September 5, 1862. The regiment was organized after the Union defeat at the…
Klan War: Ulysses S. Grant and the Battle to Save Reconstruction by Fergus M. Bordewich
Klan War: Ulysses S. Grant and the Battle to Save Reconstruction by Fergus M. Bordewich Knopf (2023) 480 pages $35.00 In the immediate months after…
A Presbyterian Pastor Gives Thanks for the Formation of the Confederacy Thanksgiving 1860
Rev. Benjamin Morgan Palmer was a Presbyterian pastor whose Thanksgiving 1860 sermon was notorious for the boost it gave to Secession. Here is some of…
I Saw Death Coming: A History of Terror and Survival in the War against Reconstruction by Kidada E. Williams
I Saw Death Coming: A History of Terror and Survival in the War against Reconstruction by Kidada E. Williams Bloomsbury Publishing (2023) 371 pages $25.00…
Fort Trumbull in New London Conn. Is Civil War Era Fortification
New London is a small city right in between Boston and New York. Just two hours from those two big cities, it often gets driven…