Category: Civil War

Today’s New York Times has a look at new research on those who lost their lives during the Civil War. Here is the report from…

Southampton is right below Northampton, Massachusetts, as it should be. If your are visiting University of Massachusetts or Amherst College or the other six schools…

Lincoln gave his Gettysburg Address on November 19, 1863, four months after the Battle of Gettysburg. Every year, the town marks the anniversary with Remembrance…

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…