The Reconstruction Era

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…

Civil War Monuments Places to Visit Veterans

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…

Civil War Monuments

Queens Civil War Soldiers and Sailors Monument

While Queens is sometimes described as “the least Civil War monumented borough,” there are several memorials in this part of New York City. One is…

Civil War U.S. Grant

Letter Promoting U.S. Grant to “General of the Armies” Finally Released to the Public

Many of you know that in 2022, during the Bicentennial of Ulysses S. Grant’s birth, many people got behind promoting Grant to the highest rank…

Book Reviews Civil War

Adelbert Ames, the Civil War, and the Creation of Modern America by Michael Megelsh

Adelbert Ames, the Civil War, and the Creation of Modern America by Michael Megelsh published by Kent State University Press (2024) is an interesting biography…