Codie EashFeb 11“Let us have war” - The Gettysburg veterans who argued against the “Cornerstone Speech”Veterans at Gettysburg used Alexander Stephens's infamous speech about slavery to argue that the Confederate cause was unjust and wrong.
Guest ContributorNov 1, 2019Exploring Philadelphia’s Civil War – Monument to Major General John F. ReynoldsEJ Murphy dives into the history of the monument to Major General John F. Reynolds in Philadelphia.
Codie EashOct 24, 2019The Pennsylvania veterans who opposed Gettysburg’s first Confederate monumentIn the decades after the Civil War, Pennsylvania veterans sought to keep Confederate monuments and memorials off the Gettysburg battlefield.
Jake WynnOct 16, 2019National honors to Rebel dead? - A blistering letter about Confederate graves at AntietamIn 1868, the representative of Westmoreland County in Congress spoke out in favor of excluding Confederate war dead from national cemeteries
Codie EashSep 20, 2019George Washington Williams and the National African American Civil War Memorial that wasn't builtMore than 36,000 African American soldiers died during the Civil War, yet no national monument memorialized their sacrifice until 1998.