Category: Civil War

While many of the monuments I have visited date back almost to the Civil War, there are a fairly large number modern monuments erected in…

Most students of the American Civil War associate the Spangler family with Gettysburg. As a kid my parents took me to Spangler Spring so I…

The Civil War Institute had its 2025 conference in Gettysburg last weekend. One of the panel discussion looked at how National Park Rangers, podcasters, and…

Union Mills in Maryland is an easy ride from Gettysburg, Pennsylvania or Frederick, Maryland. It is a sixteen mile ride from Gettysburg taking about 25…

After nearly 13% of the National Park Service staff received termination notices earlier this year, many of those devoted to history turned out at the…

While the official name of this monument is the Texas African American History Memorial, it is popularly known as the Juneteenth Monument. Texas’s Capitol has…

One of the most visited Civil War sites in the country is Grand Army Plaza outside of Prospect Park in Brooklyn. This site is dominated…

Next week there will be a rally at Gettysburg in support of the National Park Service, the Rangers, and the staff of the parks. The…

In the early days of my career as a lawyer, I used to travel to Austin, Texas quite regularly in my professional capacity. However, I…

Memorial Day, also called “Decoration Day,” was celebrated throughout the North on May 30, 1870. Just five years after the Civil War the day was,…