Civil War Memory

New To the Civil War Memory Library, 03/26

Howard Bahr, THE BLACK FLOWER: A Novel of the Civil War, (Nautical & Aviation Publishing, 1997). Ronald S. Coddington, African American Faces of the Civil War: An Album, (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012). Michele Gillespie, Katharine and R. J. Reynolds: Partners of Fortune in the Making of the New South, (University of Georgia Press, 2013). [...]

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Restore the Honor, Remove the Flaggers

Yesterday my wife and I stopped briefly at the Pelham Chapel in Richmond, which is the site of the ongoing protest by a group that styles itself, the Virginia Flaggers. As many of you know their protest is focused on the recent removal of Confederate flags from outside the chapel itself. I was hoping to [...]

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Nathan Bedford Forrest For Teens

Worried about who your teenager idolizes? Well, now you can return them to the good old days of the Civil War and Southern chivalry with Lochlainn Seabrook’s book about Nathan Bedford Forrest that is geared specifically for teens. Ride along with Forrest and get a firsthand look at his childhood in Tennessee, his teens in [...]

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Still Only One Generation Removed

A number of people have picked up on a recent news item that two children of Union soldiers are still receiving monthly payments from the U.S. government. It certainly reminds us of how close we are to the generation that fought to preserve this nation, but what I have yet to see is any acknowledgment [...]

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Advertising at Civil War Memory

Just a quick note to let all of you know that I am no longer featuring advertisements on the blog. The two remaining ads on the sidebar will be allowed to expire over the next few months and that will be it. I want to take the design of the site in a different direction. [...]

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Three Crater Photographs

Here are three photographs of the Crater from the Petersburg Museum that did not make it into my book. The first was taken inside the mineshaft itself and is dated 1926, though it is difficult to estimate exactly where. Notice the sunlight that is coming in from above. I assume the photograph was taken close [...]

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In Good Company

I love this photograph, which was taken this past weekend in Gettysburg during our panel discussion on the teaching of Civil War memory in the classroom. It was a real privilege for me to be seated in between the two historians (David Blight and John Hennessy), who have had the biggest impact on my understanding [...]

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Interpreting Mount Auburn Cemetery’s Sphinx

It is one of the most unusual memorials on any Civil War commemorative landscape North or South. I vividly recall my own loss for words during my first trip to Mount Auburn Cemetery in 2011. It is a stop at the top of my list for next year’s Civil War Memory class and thanks to [...]