Two Civil War Soldiers Given Medals of Honor for Losing Their Lives During “General” Train Capture
Yesterday, Privates Philip G. Shadrach and George D. Wilson bestowed with the Medal of Honor for their participation in the “The Great Locomotive Chase” which…
NY Times on Gettysburg’s “Lost Cause Problem”
For the 161st Anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg the New York Times published an opinion piece today on Gettysburg and the Lost Cause. Simon…
Two Union Soldiers from the “Great Locomotive Chase” Will Receive Medal of Honor July 3, 2024
Two Union soldiers involved in the stealing of a locomotive behind Confederate lines on April 12, 1862 will be given a posthumous Medal of Honor…
Kentuckian Episcopalians Ask Church to Denounce Civil War Leader Rev. James Craik
Rev. James Craik was an important figure in the Episcopal church in the United States at the time of the Civil War. He was an…
Ronald White on Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain at the Civil War Institute Podcast
Ronald C White spoke on Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain at the Civil War Institute. He recently published his new book “On Great Fields: The Life and…
Newly Erected Clara Barton Statue Hagerstown Maryland
Anyone who knows about the Battles of Gettysburg or Antietam has heard of Hagerstown, Maryland but I wonder how many “Civil War Tourists” have stopped…
The Age of Reconstruction: How Lincoln’s New Birth of Freedom Remade the World by Don Doyle
The Age of Reconstruction: How Lincoln’s New Birth of Freedom Remade the World by Don Doyle published by Princeton University Press (2024) Don Doyle’s new book…
NPS Announces Seven New Sites Added to Reconstruction Era National Historic Network
The National Park Service announced this month the addition of seven new sites to the Reconstruction Era National Historic Network. “This national network connects sites…
Civil War Institute: Did Civil War Soldiers Hide the Real War? Podcast
Walt Whitman said that the real war would never get in the books. This panel of historians confronts the primary sources of the Civil War,…
West Point Foundry at Cold Spring New York Where the Parrott Gun Was Developed
In 2013 the new West Point Foundry Preserve opened in Cold Spring, New York right next to the Hudson River. Mathews Nielsen Landscape Architects designed…