Category: Civil War

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….

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,…

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…

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…

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…

The New York Times has a review of a new novel that tells the story of a real unit in the United States Colored Troops….

At its 1926 Convention, the Sons of Confederate Veterans spent a lot of time on a discussion of an internal dispute over its effort to…

Here is an unusual correspondence between Union General J.G. Foster and Confederate General James Longstreet. In December, 1863 Abraham Lincoln had offered an amnesty to,…

Alexander Stephens was the Confederate Vice President who said that slavery was the “Cornerstone” of the Confederacy. After the Confederacy was defeated and slavery was…

From the National Parks Service: The public is invited to join the National Park Service and Longwood University at the annual free Civil War Seminar…