Category: Civil War
Westville Cemetery Where Many Connecticut African American Soldiers Were Buried in New Haven, Ct.
I was reading Kevin Levin’s Substack Civil War Memory recently and I saw an article on college students cleaning up a cemetery in Connecticut where…
The Suppression of Pat Cleburne’s Confederate Emancipation Plan
Nearly three years before Patrick Cleburne presented his commanding general with a plan to raise a black Confederate army by ending slavery, the Vice President of the…
Pat Cleburne: The South Can’t Use Black Soldiers Without Ending Slavery
The proposal Patrick Cleburne made on January 2, 1864 to arm blacks to fight for the Confederacy is often understood as either promoting the use…
Pat Cleburne: The Irish Confederate’s “Emancipation Proclamation”
On January 12, 1864 Major General W.H.T. Walker of the Confederate Army of Tennessee forwarded a confidential document to President Jefferson Davis. The words in…
William McKinley Monument in Buffalo
If you have ever watched a Buffalo Bills game you have seen the William McKinley Monument in front of City Hall. As the game begins,…
Tioga Civil War Memorial at Owego New York
There are a dozen villages and cities in Central New York that sound like they have the same name. Oswego, Otsego, and Owego are frequently…
The Past, Present, and Future of the Civil War: Three Experts Discuss
Every year on November 19, the anniversary of Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address, Gettysburg College presents the Robert Fortenbaugh Memorial Lecture. This year the topic was “The Past,…
Podcast on the Ethics of Civil War History for the Historian and Parks
John R. Heckman (The Tatooed Historian) and Jonathan Noyalas, director of Shenandoah University’s McCormick Civil War Institute, join Chris Mackowski on the Emerging Civil War…
Soldiers and Sailors Monument Providence, Rhode Island
Kennedy Square in Providence, Rhode Island is a major bus terminal for the whole city. The City Hall, erected in 1878 and the Federal Court…
“Death By Lightning” About Pres. Garfield’s Assassination Gets Good Reviews
The 1881 assassination of James Garfield by a deranged office seeker is the topic of the new Netflix series Death By Lightning. It was released…