Category: Civil War
Two Civil War Soldiers Given Medals of Honor for Losing Their Lives During “General” Train Capture
Yesterday, Privates Philip G. Shadrach and George D. Wilson bestowed with the Medal of Honor for their participation in the “The Great Locomotive Chase” which…
NY Times on Gettysburg’s “Lost Cause Problem”
For the 161st Anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg the New York Times published an opinion piece today on Gettysburg and the Lost Cause. Simon…
Two Union Soldiers from the “Great Locomotive Chase” Will Receive Medal of Honor July 3, 2024
Two Union soldiers involved in the stealing of a locomotive behind Confederate lines on April 12, 1862 will be given a posthumous Medal of Honor…
Ronald White on Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain at the Civil War Institute Podcast
Ronald C White spoke on Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain at the Civil War Institute. He recently published his new book “On Great Fields: The Life and…
Newly Erected Clara Barton Statue Hagerstown Maryland
Anyone who knows about the Battles of Gettysburg or Antietam has heard of Hagerstown, Maryland but I wonder how many “Civil War Tourists” have stopped…
Civil War Institute: Did Civil War Soldiers Hide the Real War? Podcast
Walt Whitman said that the real war would never get in the books. This panel of historians confronts the primary sources of the Civil War,…
West Point Foundry at Cold Spring New York Where the Parrott Gun Was Developed
In 2013 the new West Point Foundry Preserve opened in Cold Spring, New York right next to the Hudson River. Mathews Nielsen Landscape Architects designed…
Civil War Institute: Irish in the Civil War with Ryan Keating
Ryan Keating lectured on Irish in the American Civil War during the Civil War Institute. Keating is a professor of history at California State University…
Civil War Institute: Gettysburg’s 50th Anniversary Reunion of Blue and Gray with Thomas Flagel
Thomas R. Flagel is associate professor of history at Columbia State Community College in Tennessee. At his lecture at the Civil War Institute last weekend…
Southold N.Y. Civil War Monument Photo Tour on Long Island’s North Fork
Southold is a developing town on Long Island’s hopping North Fork. Five decades ago it was a rarely visited remote rural community. Today, that is…
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