Category: Places to Visit
Close Look at the Gettysburg Firings By National Park Service
With the firing of over 1,000 staff at the National Park Service, news media coverage is starting to breakdown the overall numbers of people laid…
New Jersey State Museum in Trenton
The New Jersey State Museum is a fairly large modern museum located at 195-205 West State Street in Trenton, the state capital. It is just…
Lincoln Return Visit Gettysburg Pennsylvania
There are a half-dozen statues of Abraham Lincoln in Gettysburg. It is no wonder, because Gettysburg was where the public recognized that the Union was…
Smithsonian National Museum of American History Washington, D.C.
Most of my readers have been to the Smithsonian American History Museum in Washington at 1300 Constitution Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20560. I have been…
William McKinley Monument Sharpsburg Maryland
Many of you have visited Antietam National Battlefield at Antietam Creek in Sharpsburg, Maryland. The September 17, 1862 battle became the largest violent loss of…
Clara Barton Schoolhouse Bordentown New Jersey
Most of my readers know about Clara Barton. She was a volunteer nurse during the Civil War and in the last days of the war…
Grant Home Burlington, NJ Where Grant Found Out Lincoln Was Assassinated
I had always heard that Ulysses S. Grant was invited to accompany Abraham Lincoln to Ford’s Theater on April 14, 1865 to see the play…
Princeton University Civil War Memorial Atrium
Princeton University, one of the elite Ivy League schools, is in the North East in New Jersey. There is a monument on campus memorializing alums…
George McClellan’s Grave Trenton New Jersey
George McClellan may not have many fans among Civil War buffs, but in Trenton, New Jersey he was a hero, at least during his life….
Look at the New Museum Being Built Under the Lincoln Memorial
In 2023, the National Park Service began construction under the Lincoln Memorial in Washington to transform the space beneath Lincoln’s statue into a museum. We…
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