The Failure to Convict Jefferson Davis for Insurrection
Historian Jill Lepore has an interesting article on the New Yorker website on the failure to convict Confederate President Jefferson Davis after the Civil War….
Longstreet: The Confederate General Who Defied the South by Elizabeth Varon
Longstreet: The Confederate General Who Defied the South by Elizabeth Varon published by Simon & Schuster (2023) Back in the 1960s when I first started…
21st Connecticut Volunteer Infantry Regiment Monument in New London
The 21st Connecticut Volunteer Infantry Regiment was organized in Norwich, Ct. in September 5, 1862. The regiment was organized after the Union defeat at the…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…