Category: Civil War

Westfield, Massachusetts is, well, just to the west of Springfield, Massachusetts. It was settled in the 1600s and, until 1725, it was the westernmost settlement…

Deerfield, Massachusetts is an historic town that was the focus of a French and Indian raid that resulted in dozens of its people being killed…

At the start of the Civil War, the United States had two Federal armories, one at Springfield, Massachusetts and the other at Harpers Ferry, Virginia….

I drove down to Camden, New Jersey at the start of November to see the Camden Civil War Memorial. The Historical Marker Data Base has…

As every New Jersey school kid knows, the southern part of the state was part of a still-born Swedish Empire back in the 1600s. The…

When you first see the Civil War monument below you might think it is in South Carolina. It is ringed with tropical plants, maybe even…

Toms River is the county seat of Ocean County, New Jersey. The county was only created a decade before the Civil War. The population had…

This illustration, “Forrest Again in White Shroud,” was published in the newspaper Memphis Press-Scimitar on April 30, 1905. The illustration appeared just a month before…

While Queens is sometimes described as “the least Civil War monumented borough,” there are several memorials in this part of New York City.  One is…

Many of you know that in 2022, during the Bicentennial of Ulysses S. Grant’s birth, many people got behind promoting Grant to the highest rank…