Posted in Book Reviews Civil War

The Atlanta Campaign: Volume 1: Dalton to Cassville, May 1-19, 1864 by David Powell

The Atlanta Campaign: Volume 1: Dalton to Cassville, May 1-19, 1864 by David Powell published by Savas Beatie (2024) When I saw that military historian Dave…

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Posted in Civil War Places to Visit

Gettysburg Cyclorama

In June I visited the Gettysburg Cyclorama. The Cyclorama is a gigantic round painting of “Pickett’s Charge” in which the audience stands in the middle…

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Gettysburg National Military Park Museum

Most Civil War students who live in the Eastern United States will have visited the museum at the Gettysburg National Military Park at some point…

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Grant and Sheridan at the Shelbourne Hotel in Dublin, Ireland

Usually I am bringing you sites of the Civil War and Reconstruction from within the 50 States, but this week I am in Ireland. There…

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NY Times Columnist Calls for a Civil War Movie that Tells the Truth

Last week Jamelle Bouie wrote an opinion piece in the New York Times in which he calls for a truthful movie about the Civil War….

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Posted in Civil War Monuments Places to Visit

Cornwall New York Civil War Monument

Cornwall-on-Hudson is a small river village with just over three thousand people in Orange County below Newburgh. It is an affluent community with many buildings…

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Posted in Redeemers The Site White Supremacy White Supremacy Apologetics White Terror

Emerging Civil War Honors Patrick Young with Stevenson Award

Last Friday I was honored by the non-profit Emerging Civil War organization for my work researching and writing about the Reconstruction Era. Here is the…

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Jefferson Davis Explains Why Mississippi Seceded from the United States in His Farewell Address to the Senate

On January 21, 1861, Mississippi Senator Jeff Davis gave his speech resigning from the United States Senate. The entire speech can be read here, beginning…

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Chatham Manor at Fredericksburg National Military Park

I have been to the Fredericksburg National Military Park at least half-a-dozen times over the years, but I only went to the Chatham Manor across…

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Posted in Ku Klux Klan White Supremacy White Supremacy Apologetics White Terror

Platform of the Ku Klux Klan Mississippi “A Government of White Men For White Men” March 1868

Here is a Mississippi paper’s publication of the platform of the KKK which focuses on the disenfranchisement of blacks. Many white conservative newspapers published Klan…

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