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Spy Agency Created Online Exhibit on Spying During Civil War

The National Counterintelligence and Security Center which is part of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence has created an online exhibit on espionage during…

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Elmira Prison Camp Site Reopens on Saturdays This Summer

The Elmira Civil War Prison Camp has announced it will be reopening this summer. The camp, which held thousands of captured Confederates in 1864 and…

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Posted in Civil War Lost Cause Memory of Reconstruction

Exhibit “Mustering Memory: 160 Years of Saluting the Civil War” Looks at How the War has Been Remembered Over the Years

The Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Library and Museum is opening a new exhibit on how the Civil War has been remembered over the years. Civil…

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Posted in Civil War Myths of Reconstruction

American Civil War Museum in Richmond Opening New Theater

The American Civil War Museum in Richmond, Virginia, is opening a new theater at its Tredegar site in June. The Richmond Times Dispatch has a…

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Posted in Civil War U.S. Grant

Grant Bicentennial at Culpeper Va. This Weekend

Culpeper, Va., an hour west of Fredericksburg, will be the site of a commemoration of the Grant Bicentennial this weekend. Grant was born on April…

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Posted in Civil War Frederick Douglass Ku Klux Klan Lost Cause Memory of Reconstruction

Around the Web April 2022: Best of Civil War & Reconstruction Blogs and Social Media

March was a most unusual month for me. I spent the last third of it hospitalized at the NYU hosital in Mineola, on Long Island….

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Historic Marker Commemorating Union Army Liberation of Richmond Destroyed Before Anniversary

In 2020, a new historic marker commemorating the Union Army’s liberation of Richmond, Virginia was erected by the State of Virginia. It was recently destroyed,…

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About that Meme Showing a Charge by a “Black Confederate Regiment”

A new meme is making the rounds supposedly showing a charge by a unit of “Black Confederates.” The meme notes that on March 13, 1865…

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Posted in Civil War White Supremacy

Podcast: The Life and Presidency of Rutherford B. Hayes

Rutherford B. Hayes is remembered today almost entirely for the  irregular Election of 1876 that brought him to power and for the withdrawal of Federal…

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Posted in Civil War USCT White Supremacy

Nashville Scene Profiles Local United States Colored Troops Reenactors

The Nashville Scene newspaper has a profile today of local African Americans exploring the history of the United States Colored Troops through reenacting. This is…

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