Category: Places to Visit
Civil War Dead Monument of Concord Massachusetts
I went to Concord, Massachusetts for the 250th Anniversary of the start of the Revolutionary War. As you likely know, the first actions of that…
DOGE Stops Funding of Whitney Plantation Which Tells the Story of Enslaved Blacks
The Whitney Plantation in Wallace, Louisiana was founded in 1752. It contained dozens of enslaved African Americans until the Civil War broke out. In 2014…
DOGE Is Given Even More Power Over National Parks and Historic Sites
DOGE has reduced staffing at the National Park Service by more than 10% over the last three months, but on Thursday Interior Secretary Doug Burgum…
Civil War Monuments at Lexington, Massachusetts-Where the Revolution Started
The Battles of Lexington and Concord were fought on April 19, 1775, two hundred and fifty years ago. This is the start of the Revolutionary…
Civil War Sesquicentennial Monument Cranbury New Jersey
In my search for Civil War monuments, I have visited many that were erected soon after Appomattox, but I have also discovered quite a few…
Civil War Monument in Hightstown New Jersey
Hightstown, New Jersey is a small borough of 5,900 people in Mercer County. Hightstown is withing commuting distance of Manhattan and is in the Raritan…
Civil War Monument in Cranbury New Jersey
Cranbury, New Jersey is a small township of 3,842 people in the Raritan Valley. It looks almost rural, but it is less than an hour…
Female Civil War Nurses Scrubbed from Defense Department’s Web Site
Military.Com has discovered that the Defense Department has scrubbed an article on its web site that detailed the history of women nurses recruited during the…
Vicksburg Has Lost 32% of Its Staff Under DOGE Cuts
Vicksburg National Military Park has lost 7 full-time staff members out of a staff of 22. 32% of the staff has been laid off at…
National Park Archeologists for South Fired-10 Out of 17 Were Let Go
A unit of archeologists based in Florida, but whose work is throughout the states of the old Confederacy east of the Mississippi River, has seen…