Category: Civil War
Albert Castel Award Goes to Tullahoma: The Forgotten Campaign that Changed the Course of the Civil War, June 23-July 4, 1863
David Powell and Eric Wittenberg were honored last week with the 2022 Albert Castel Book Award for their campaign study Tullahoma: The Forgotten Campaign that…
Will Smith Film “Emancipation” on Black Union Soldier “Whipped Peter” Still in Limbo Due to Oscar Slap
The New York Times reports that the release of a new film on the subject of one of the most famous Civil War photographs is…
Maine Civil War Veteran Credited With Introducing Baseball to Japan in 1872
The above photo shows Horace Wilson standing at right. Horace Wilson was a young man fresh out of the equivalent of high school when he…
Exhibit of Paintings of United States Colored Troops Opens in Lexington Park Md.
I received this press release of a new exhibit that people near Lexington Park, Maryland may want to visit. The U.S. Colored Troops (USCT) Interpretive…
Stone Mountain Still a Lost Cause Shrine
In the Spring of 2021, the state agency managing Stone Mountain in Georgia promised to begin altering the Lost Cause presentation of the Civil War…
Video: The Port Royal Experiment Talk by Ranger Chris Barr on How Coastal Carolina Was an Experiment in Black Freedom
Chris Barr is back with a new short video on the “Port Royal Experiment.” This is how Beaufort, South Carolina and the nearby islands were…
Civil War Monuments in Biddeford Maine & Local Graves of Veterans
My last stop during my August trip to the Southeast Maine Coast was in Biddeford, Maine. Today, this is a bustling city with both a…
Jubal Early Explains the Causes of the Civil War During His Reconstruction Exile
Jubal Early, a Virginian, was an important leader in the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia during the Civil War, and a primary constructor of The…
Barbara Gannon on Finding the “Lost Graves” of Black Soldiers Killed at the Battle of Olustee: Video
I was reading Kevin Levin’s Substack yesterday and he posted this talk by historian Barbara Gannon, which I had not seen before. Gannon teaches history…
Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain Statue and Treasures at Bowdoin College Photo Tour
During my vacation in Maine last week, I took a drive up to Brunswick, Maine to tour Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain’s home with my wife Michele,…
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