Category: Monuments
Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Monument in Newport, Rhode Island
The Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Monument in Newport, Rhode Island is in Congdon Park. Newport is a beautiful city set next to the Atlantic Ocean which…
Andrew Johnson National Historic Site Panels That May Be Taken Down
Andrew Johnson was the president in the last weeks of the Civil War. After the Confederate armies had surrendered, he became the principal architect of…
Oak Hill Cemetery G.A.R. Section Vineland, N.J.
I posted recently about the large monument in Downtown Vineland, New Jersey. On the same trip I visited the nearby Oak Hill Cemetery in the…
Wayside Panels May be Removed at Bull Run
Manassas National Battlefield Park, where the first major battle of the Civil War was fought, has two panels that have been called into question under…
Slavery Exhibit Restored at President’s House at Independence Park in Philadelphia
With a court-imposed deadline of Friday, Feb. 19 to restore dismantled exhibits on slavery at the President’s House in Philadelphia, the National Park Service has…
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…
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…
Judge Tells National Park Service to Stop Making Changes to Presidents’ House in Philadelphia
Last week a Federal Court judge was extremely critical of the National Park Service (NPS) and the Trump administration for having surreptitiously taken down panels…
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…