Armed Confederates in the Capital – Tennessee Veterans Visit Washington, D.C.
EJ Murphy stumbled across this story of Confederate veterans in Washington in the pages of a Scranton newspaper from 1907.
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Codie Eash
- Jul 8, 2020
U.S. Grant and Alex Hays, Part 4 – “He was weeping like a child”
In the decades after the Civil War, President Ulysses Grant made mournful visits to the grave of his friend Alexander Hays in Pittsburgh.
Codie Eash
- Jul 4, 2020
Not a cross, but a “cross-roads hand-board” – The 142nd Pennsylvania monument at Gettysburg
Codie Eash explores the fascinating story of a unique monument to a Pennsylvania regiment on the Gettysburg battlefield.
Jake Wynn
- May 1, 2020
A visit to the Stones River battlefield with two Pennsylvania schoolteachers - May 1867
Hannah Streeper and Fannie Couch taught black students at the Pottsville Freedmen's School in Murfreesboro, Tennessee after the Civil War.
Codie Eash
- Apr 12, 2020
“I saw the first meeting between Grant and Lee” – A Pennsylvania private’s Appomattox recollection
Two decades after Lee surrendered at Appomattox Court House, a Pennsylvania veteran sparked a fierce debate over the memory of the event.
Codie Eash
- Feb 11, 2020
“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 Contributor
- Nov 1, 2019
Exploring Philadelphia’s Civil War – Monument to Major General John F. Reynolds
EJ Murphy dives into the history of the monument to Major General John F. Reynolds in Philadelphia.
Codie Eash
- Oct 24, 2019
The Pennsylvania veterans who opposed Gettysburg’s first Confederate monument
In the decades after the Civil War, Pennsylvania veterans sought to keep Confederate monuments and memorials off the Gettysburg battlefield.
Jake Wynn
- Oct 16, 2019
National honors to Rebel dead? - A blistering letter about Confederate graves at Antietam
In 1868, the representative of Westmoreland County in Congress spoke out in favor of excluding Confederate war dead from national cemeteries
Codie Eash
- Sep 20, 2019
George Washington Williams and the National African American Civil War Memorial that wasn't built
More than 36,000 African American soldiers died during the Civil War, yet no national monument memorialized their sacrifice until 1998.