The Reconstruction Era

Deerfield Massachusetts Civil War Soldier’s Monument

Deerfield, Massachusetts is an historic town that was the focus of a French and Indian raid that resulted in dozens of its people being killed…

Civil War Monuments Places to Visit

Springfield Armory in Massachusetts

At the start of the Civil War, the United States had two Federal armories, one at Springfield, Massachusetts and the other at Harpers Ferry, Virginia….

Civil War Monuments Places to Visit

Camden New Jersey Civil War Memorial

I drove down to Camden, New Jersey at the start of November to see the Camden Civil War Memorial. The Historical Marker Data Base has…

Civil War Monuments Places to Visit

General Charles Harker’s Grave at Swedesboro New Jersey

As every New Jersey school kid knows, the southern part of the state was part of a still-born Swedish Empire back in the 1600s. The…

Civil War Monuments Places to Visit

Greetings from Asbury Park Civil War Monument on the Jersey Shore

When you first see the Civil War monument below you might think it is in South Carolina. It is ringed with tropical plants, maybe even…

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Grand Army of the Republic Memorial Toms River New Jersey

Toms River is the county seat of Ocean County, New Jersey. The county was only created a decade before the Civil War. The population had…

Lost Cause

Thomas Nast Cartoon on the Threat to Black Suffrage from Confederates and Northern Democrats

Thomas Nast was America’s most powerful political cartoonist throughout the Civil War and Reconstruction. A strong supporter of the Republican Party during the 1860s, he…

Civil War Ku Klux Klan Memory of Reconstruction Monuments

Nathan Bedford Forrest Statue Was Shrouded in this 1905 Illustration

This illustration, “Forrest Again in White Shroud,” was published in the newspaper Memphis Press-Scimitar on April 30, 1905. The illustration appeared just a month before…