One of the most interesting Union accounts of the Crater is Lieutenant Freeman Bowley’s memoir, which was published in the National Tribune between April 1899 and September 1899. [In 2006 […]
I‘ve decided to begin my Crater manuscript with the forced post-battle march of roughly 1,500 black and white Union soldiers through the streets of Petersburg before being sent to prisons […]
The History News Network has posted Ron Maxwell’s recent address at the Confederate cemetery at Arlington. He starts off with the right tone, but unfortunately, toward the end he was […]
My recent post on the unveiling of another large Confederate flag in Tennessee generated a number of comments. It’s an emotional issue on all sides and it is unlikely that […]
I just wanted to take a moment to thank Dimitri Rotov for setting us straight on Civil War historiography: Agitating against “Lost Cause” historiography invites one into a fantasy struggle […]
Here’s a sure fire way to announce to the world just how irrelevant you are. More to the point, the SCV would have us believe that this is nothing more […]
Now that things have calmed down a bit re: the petition asking Obama not to send a wreath to the Confederate monument at Arlington, I thought it might be time […]