Category: Places to Visit
90th Pennsylvania Monument at Antietam “A Hot Place”
The 90th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry was raised in Philadelphia in September of 1861. The regiment saw it first large-scale combat during the Second Battle of…
Chambersburg’s Memorial Fountain for Union Troops & “The Burning of Chambersburg”
The women’s groups of Franklin County, Pennsylvania met on Memorial Day in 1868 and agreed they wanted to honor their men for serving in the…
Harriet Tubman & Thomas Garrett Statue in Wilmington, Delaware
For the Sesquicentennial of the Civil War, the citizens of Wilmington, Delaware erected a new statue in the revived Riverfront Park along the Christina River…
Irish Monument to the American Civil War
My wife and I were in Ireland in August and, of course, we found Civil War-related sites at the eastern side of the Atlantic Ocean….
Abraham Lincoln Statue at Gettysburg Visitors Center
You would expect Abraham Lincoln at Gettysburg and I am sure many readers recall seeing Lincoln downtown in this Civil War city. That statue, which…
Gettysburg Cyclorama
In June I visited the Gettysburg Cyclorama. The Cyclorama is a gigantic round painting of “Pickett’s Charge” in which the audience stands in the middle…
Gettysburg National Military Park Museum
Most Civil War students who live in the Eastern United States will have visited the museum at the Gettysburg National Military Park at some point…
Grant and Sheridan at the Shelbourne Hotel in Dublin, Ireland
Usually I am bringing you sites of the Civil War and Reconstruction from within the 50 States, but this week I am in Ireland. There…
Cornwall New York Civil War Monument
Cornwall-on-Hudson is a small river village with just over three thousand people in Orange County below Newburgh. It is an affluent community with many buildings…
General James A. Garfield Statue in Long Branch on the Jersey Shore Where He Died
Seven Presidents Park along the Jersey Shore in Long Branch is a well-known spot for beach goers in the summer. Long Branch can be quite…
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