When the Confederates Planned to Blow Up Libby Prison to Kill the Prisoners in the Event of a Raid
In February 1865 the Joint Select Committee of the Confederate Congress appointed to investigate the conditions and treatment of prisoners of war issued a report…
Christiansburg, Virginia to Install Panels on the Town’s Black History During Slavery and Reconstruction
The Montgomery Museum of Art & History in Christiansburg, Virginia and the Christiansburg Institute has approval to place three interpretive panels in the town square…
Around the Web August 2021: Best of Civil War & Reconstruction Blogs and Social Media
The month on Civil War and Reconstruction social media started a little slow, maybe everyone was caught up with Fourth of July barbeques, but things…
A Future Leader of the Resistance to Reconstruction Advocates Confederate Enlistment of Black Soldiers
I have read a number of musings and proposals by Confederates to enlist Black men into the Confederate army. The most famous is General Pat…
South Carolina Plantation to Tell the Story of the African Americans Who Escaped From It
Historic Brattonsville in McConnells, S.C. is working on a new exhibit focusing on four people enslaved at the plantation at the center of the historic…
The Reconstruction Era Klan As an Employer Association
Chad Pearson, a professor of history at Collin College in Texas, has an article in Jacobin on the importance of the Ku Klux Klan to…
Paintings of Prison Life at Point Lookout by a Captive Confederate
John Jacob Omenhausser was born in 1832 in Philadelphia to a German immigrant family. When the Civil War began he was living in Richmond, Virginia….
Judge Orders Confederate Statue Near Courthouse Removed
Roanoke County Circuit Judge Charles Dorsey ordered a Confederate statue removed from next county courthouse grounds. This is the first time such an order has…
Andersonville and the Whitewashing of History
We know of the suffering and death at Andersonville prison during its fourteen months as a Confederate prison for captured Union soldiers in 1864 and…
Hellmira: The Union’s Most Infamous Civil War Prison Camp – Elmira, NY by Derick Maxfield
Hellmira: The Union’s Most Infamous Civil War Prison Camp – Elmira, NY by Derick Maxfield published by Savas Beatie (2020) 192 pages Hellmira: The Union’s…