Category: Civil War
Historians Discuss “Civil War” Video Games on Video Panel
Muster is the blog of the scholarly Journal of the Civil War Era. An article this month includes a video of younger historians discussing a…
Marker Erected Telling the Story of USCT at the Battle of Nashville
Before the December 2021 anniversary of the Union victory at the Battle of Nashville, a marker was erected near the site of Granbury’s Lunette telling…
2022 Is the 160th Anniversary of the 1862 Wilmington, N.C. Yellow Fever Outbreak
In 1862, Wilmington, North Carolina was hit with a Yellow Fever epidemic that caused half the city’s population to flee. While the disease outbreak seems…
June 1865 Ulysses S. Grant Worried that Confederates Fleeing to Mexico Posed Threat to U.S.
Following the complete defeat of the Confederacy in 1865, thousands of Confederate veterans, politicians, and their family members fled to Latin America. Most of these…
Podcast Examines How Civil War Is Remembered at Battlefields and in Monuments
Laura DeMarco discusses her new book “Lost Civil War: The Disappearing Legacy of America’s Greatest Conflict” and Karen Cox, professor at the University of North…
Abolitionist Turner Ashby’s Mob Drove Out Subject of New Virginia Marker
In 1856, future Confederate hero Turner Ashby led a violent pro-slavery mob in an attack against John C. Underwood, of Clarke County, Virginia. Underwood was…
New Civil War Trails Interpretive Panel at Camp Stanton, Md. Where USCT Trained
Civil War Trails has installed a new interpretive panel Civil at Serenity Farm near Benedict, Maryland on a site where African Americans trained in the…
Virginia Approves New Historic Markers Highlighting Civil War & Reconstruction History
The Virginia Board of Historic Resources approved fourteen new highway historic markers at its quarterly meeting in December. The markers are expected to go up…
Wall Street Journal Names New Robert E. Lee Bio to Its Ten best Books List
The Wall Street Journal released its list of the ten best books of 2021. Two are related to the Civil War Era. I would note…
Changes to Pa. Markers for Gettysburg Campaign & Chambersburg Burning Denounced as Woke
Pennsylvania’s Historical and Museum Commission has changed the signage marking Confederate troop movements in McConnellsburg, Fulton County. McConnellsburg is and hour’s drive west of Gettysburg,…
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