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Union Memorial at Greenfield Cemetery Near Hempstead, N.Y.

Although I have worked in Hempstead for over thirty-five years, I did not know that a cemetery on the border between Uniondale and Hempstead has…

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Yale University Civil War Memorial Hall

In 1895, the Yale Daily News, a student newspaper, began campaigning for Yale to honor its students who fought and died in the Civil War…

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Brewster NY Civil War Monument

Brewster is a small village in New York’s Hudson Valley. I visited its Civil War Monument in January of this year. As has been the…

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Posted in Civil War Emancipation Proclamation Monuments Places to Visit Uncategorized

Soldiers’ Monument of Waterbury, Conn.

The Waterbury Soldiers’ Monument in Western Connecticut is a monumental sculptural work that demands better care and preservation. Dedicated on October 23, 1884 at the…

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Posted in Book Reviews Civil War

To Antietam Creek: The Maryland Campaign of September 1862 by Scott Hartwig

To Antietam Creek: The Maryland Campaign of September 1862 by Scott Hartwig published by Johns Hopkins University Press (2012) My regular readers know that a…

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Long Island Black Civil War Soldier to Have Marker Placed Near His Oyster Bay House

Long Island’s Town of Oyster Bay will unveil an historical marker on Carll Hill Road telling the story behind the naming of the road. David…

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Robert Smalls, Heroic Escaped Slave, Learned to Read & Told His Opinions

A new article in the Smithsonian Magazine offers some insights into Robert Smalls from his teacher in South Carolina. In 1862, Smalls, and enslaved pilot,…

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Old Soldiers Still Can Love Young Women-A Confederate Soldier’s Home Tale

Here is an interesting story from Rusty Williams, a scholar of Confederate soldiers’ homes, on the home in Oklahoma. The home admitted Confederate veterans and…

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Posted in African Americans Emancipation & Reconstruction Civil War Religion

Harriet Tubman’s Church Auburn N.Y. Photo Tour

Harriet Tubman today is an iconic figure of resistance to slavery, fighting for the Union to abolish slavery, and caring for Black veterans who served…

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Posted in Civil War Lincoln Monuments Places to Visit

“Mystic Lincoln” Statue in Jersey City’s Lincoln Park

I know a fair amount about the Civil War and Reconstruction monuments that I visit long before I go to photograph them. I started this…

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