Following my interviews yesterday at the Petersburg National Battlefield Park I made my way through part of the driving tour that ends at the Crater. I shot this photograph at Stop #3/Confederate Battery 9. It is a monument to United States Colored Troops (dedicated in 1993) who served in both the Army of the Potomac [...]

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Gearing up for the Civil War Sesquicentennial in the Classroom

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The Last Black Confederate Surrenders

I’m not sure how I missed this story, but it looks like H.K. Edgerton has given up his crusade to teach Americans about the loyalty of black Southerners to the Confederate cause. In the years leading up to his April 2007 decision to furl the flag Edgerton had become a popular fixture at various Southern [...]

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Remembering the 54th Massachusetts

Yesterday felt like a marathon. I left Charlottesville at 7am for Washington, D.C. to interview three members of the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Regiment (Co. B) along with the Director of the African-American Civil War Memorial Foundation and Museum. The three gentlemen in the picture are all founding members of the reenacting unit, two of [...]

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