Author: Patrick Young
A South Carolina Lady on the Death of the Confederacy: “Our slain heroes cried out against such an end”
Emma Holmes was a twenty-two year old woman when the Civil War began. The scion of a well-connected Charleston family, she had rejoiced when the…
Marker Erected Telling the Story of USCT at the Battle of Nashville
Before the December 2021 anniversary of the Union victory at the Battle of Nashville, a marker was erected near the site of Granbury’s Lunette telling…
2022 Is the 160th Anniversary of the 1862 Wilmington, N.C. Yellow Fever Outbreak
In 1862, Wilmington, North Carolina was hit with a Yellow Fever epidemic that caused half the city’s population to flee. While the disease outbreak seems…
June 1865 Ulysses S. Grant Worried that Confederates Fleeing to Mexico Posed Threat to U.S.
Following the complete defeat of the Confederacy in 1865, thousands of Confederate veterans, politicians, and their family members fled to Latin America. Most of these…
Around the Web January 2022: Best of Civil War & Reconstruction Blogs and Social Media
This month was a good one for podcasts and video. Happy New Year! Blogs Civil War Books and Authors handed out its annual awards for…
Abolitionist Turner Ashby’s Mob Drove Out Subject of New Virginia Marker
In 1856, future Confederate hero Turner Ashby led a violent pro-slavery mob in an attack against John C. Underwood, of Clarke County, Virginia. Underwood was…
New Civil War Trails Interpretive Panel at Camp Stanton, Md. Where USCT Trained
Civil War Trails has installed a new interpretive panel Civil at Serenity Farm near Benedict, Maryland on a site where African Americans trained in the…
Virginia Approves New Historic Markers Highlighting Civil War & Reconstruction History
The Virginia Board of Historic Resources approved fourteen new highway historic markers at its quarterly meeting in December. The markers are expected to go up…
At Least 631 Black Schoolhouses Were Attacked During Reconstruction
According to a recent article in the Journal of the Civil War Era, there were “631 attacks on African American schools between 1864 and 1876.”…
American Conservative Article In Dunning School Tradition Draws Criticism
A new article by Helen Andrews in The American Conservative, Reconstruction Revisionism, is garnering negative critiques from many other writers. Her article claims that interpreting…