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A Presbyterian Pastor Gives Thanks for the Formation of the Confederacy Thanksgiving 1860

Rev. Benjamin Morgan Palmer was a Presbyterian pastor whose Thanksgiving 1860 sermon was notorious for the boost it gave to Secession. Here is some of…

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I Saw Death Coming: A History of Terror and Survival in the War against Reconstruction by Kidada E. Williams

I Saw Death Coming: A History of Terror and Survival in the War against Reconstruction by Kidada E. Williams Bloomsbury Publishing (2023) 371 pages $25.00…

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Fort Trumbull in New London Conn. Is Civil War Era Fortification

New London is a small city right in between Boston and New York. Just two hours from those two big cities, it  often gets driven…

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Saving Yellowstone: Exploration & Preservation In Reconstruction America- Megan Kate Nelson

The following hour-long audio lecture was delivered on Sunday, June 11, 2023 by Dr. Megan Kate Nelson at the 2023 CWI Summer Conference at Gettysburg…

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Woodlawn Union Monument in the Bronx

I went up to Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx early in November, 2023 to photograph Unions and Confederate generals buried there. What I did not…

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Union Powder Mill at Algonquin Park “Orange Mills” in Orange County, New York

Algonquin Park in Orange County, New York in the Hudson Valley was a powder mill used to produce gun powder during the Civil War at…

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Monument to the 29th New Jersey Vol. Infantry Redbank, NJ

The 29th New Jersey Volunteer Infantry Regiment was raised during the invasion of Maryland after the Union defeat at the Second Manassas. The unit, a…

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Klan War: Ulysses S. Grant and the Battle to Save Reconstruction, by Fergus M. Bordewich

Klan War: Ulysses S. Grant and the Battle to Save Reconstruction by Fergus M. Bordewich Knopf (2023) 480 pages $35.00 In the immediate months after the…

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Orange Blossom Monument in Goshen to the 124th Regiment NY

Goshen, New York is in the Hudson Highlands just fifty miles north of New York City. Many of the buildings along Main Street in the…

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Northampton Memorial Hall in Massachusetts

Northampton Memorial Hall in Massachusetts is  dedicated to local veterans, but with a clear nod at the Civil War. The Hall was first proposed in…

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