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Bushwick Inlet The Site Where The Monitor Was Built
Many students of the Civil War who know that that famous ironclad Monitor was built in Brooklyn, assume that it was built at the Brooklyn…
John Ericsson Monument Battery Park NYC Photo Tour
We all know that the Bronx is Up and the Battery’s Down…but did you know that one of the most vivid Civil War monuments is…
NY Times Obituary of an Enslaved North Carolinian Who Escaped Slavery Joined the Navy & and Went on to Success in Reconstruction
Over the last year the New York Times has been publishing obituaries of people who died a long time ago. These are men and women…
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