Category: Civil War
Iron Brigade Immigrants Arrive at Gettysburg
On July 1, 1863, the Sixth Wisconsin Regiment arrived in Gettysburg. A battle between a large Confederate force and a Union cavalry division had been waged…
Lee’s Army Moves Towards Gettysburg: Black Refugees Flee
When Confederate troops began slipping west and north of the Union army for their June 1863 invasion of Pennsylvania, no one worried more about the…
An Irish Soldier Between Chancellorsville and Gettysburg
The Union loss at Chancellorsville was felt on the home front as well as on the battlefield. For the immigrant soldier Peter Welsh, the home front…
Where Varina and Winne Davis Lived After Jefferson Davis’s Death
A fine hotel from the 19th Century where Varina Davis and her daughter Winnie lived after Jefferson Davis’s death is still standing and is a…
Wilmington Delaware Soldiers And Sailors Monument
Wilmington is a small city in the north of Delaware. At the time of the Civil War, there were more than 21,000 people living there….
Ireland Famine Monument Dublin
Most Americans have at least heard of Ireland’s “Potato Famine” during which one million died of hunger and related diseases and another million fled Ireland…
Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad National Historical Park Maryland
The Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad National Historical Park is at 4068 Golden Hill Road Church Creek, Maryland 21622 is a relatively new site jointly run…
Video: The Massacre of U.S. Colored Troops at Camp Nelson in Kentucky
PBS recently did a documentary of United States Colored Troops and Black refugees that sought refuge at the Union’s Camp Nelson in Kentucky in 1864…
We the People: A History of the U.S. Constitution by Jill Lepore Wins Pulitzer for History
We the People: A History of the U.S. Constitution, by Jill Lepore (Liveright) has won the Pulitzer Prize for History. About a third of the…
Congaree National Park May Have to Redact Three Items of Printed Material on Slavery
Congaree National Park in South Carolina is eighteen miles southeast of the state’s capital of Columbia. The park gets fewer than 150,000 visitors every year…