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Adelbert Ames, the Civil War, and the Creation of Modern America by Michael Megelsh

Adelbert Ames, the Civil War, and the Creation of Modern America by Michael Megelsh published by Kent State University Press (2024) is an interesting biography…

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Gettysburg Cyclorama Explained by Chris Brenneman on Addressing Gettysburg

Chris Brenneman gives a very good explanation of the Gettysburg Cyclorama, a 19th Century paining-in-the-round that depicts “Pickett’s Charge” during the Battle of Gettysburg.  Matt…

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Port Jervis NY Civil War Monument, Stephen Crane & a Lynching

Port Jervis is a small city where New York, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey meet. The city has 8,775 residents according to the 2020, down by…

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Milford Pennsylvania Monument on Pike County Courthouse

Milford, Pennsylvania is the county seat of Pike County. This is a very small borough located on the Delaware River across from New Jersey. The…

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New Report on Fort Sumter Being Threatened With Flooding

  Fort Sumter is subsiding an inch every six to seven years according to Woodwell Climate. The sea level will rise  1.21 ft by 2050…

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90th Pennsylvania Monument at Antietam “A Hot Place”

The 90th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry was raised in Philadelphia in September of 1861. The regiment saw it first large-scale combat during the Second Battle of…

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Chambersburg’s Memorial Fountain for Union Troops & “The Burning of Chambersburg”

The women’s groups of Franklin County, Pennsylvania met on Memorial Day in 1868 and agreed they wanted to honor their men for serving in the…

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Bryan House a Black Refuge at Gettysburg

Abraham Brian was a free Black man who owned this farm near where Pickett’s Charge ended on the last day of the Battle of Gettysburg…

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Harriet Tubman & Thomas Garrett Statue in Wilmington, Delaware

For the Sesquicentennial of the Civil War, the citizens of Wilmington, Delaware erected a new statue in the revived Riverfront Park along the Christina River…

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Memorial Episode of Civil War Talk on Death of Historian Peter Carmichael (Podcast)

I had only met Peter Carmichael once. I had run into him at the Civil War Institute at Gettysburg College in June. Arnoldo Vazquez, and…

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