Category: Civil War
Drew Gilpin Faust Reviews Fitzhugh Brundage’s Book “A Fate Worse Than Hell, American Prisoners of the Civil War”
Drew Gilpin Faust has a new review in the Atlantic Magazine of W. Fitzhugh Brundage’s new book titled A Fate Worse Than Hell: American Prisoners…
Civil War Memorial Vineland NJ
Vineland, New Jersey was founded in the midst of the Civil War in 1861. Charles Landis, a Utopian, started it as a planned community. He…
Extended Trailer for Civil War Spy Miniseries “The Gray House” Just Released
“The Gray House” is a new miniseries coming out on Amazon Prime on February 26, 2026. From Morgan Freeman and Kevin Costner, it depicts the…
Soldiers Monument Ansonia Connecticut
Ansonia, Ct. is a small city of 19,000 inhabitants. At the time of the Civil War, the area had fewer than 3,000 people. The Soldiers…
Soldiers and Sailors Monument Atlantic City NJ
When you arrive by bus from New York and Baltimore to go to the casinos you may see what looks like a monument in the…
Site of Grand Army of the Republic Encampment Atlantic City
Atlantic City now is known as a place of gambling, Casinos line the boardwalk, with buses arriving from all over the Mid-Atlantic region. Before that…
Cassius Marcellus Clay: The Life of an Antislavery Slaveholder and the Paradox of American Reform by Anne E. Marshall
Cassius Marcellus Clay: The Life of an Antislavery Slaveholder and the Paradox of American Reform by Anne E. Marshall published by University of North Carolina…
Recruiting the Irish Brigade, Creating the Irish American
by Patrick Young, Esq. – Blogger Defeat at Bull Run had left the Union war plan in tatters. Lincoln had assumed that the Confederate rebellion could be suppressed…
Harriet Tubman Statue Binghamton NY
Harriet Tubman has long been a hero to Upstate New Yorkers. She lived for more than half of her life in Auburn, New York in…
Thomas Meagher: The Irish Rebel Joins the Union Army
Originally published on May 17, 2012 in The Immigrants’ Civil War by Patrick Young, Esq. – Blogger Thomas Francis Meagher was to found the Irish Brigade, one…