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Category Archives: Reconstruction
Finding Miss Susie
If studying history has taught me anything, it’s that everything is connected. Places, people, and events that shaped the nation did not occur in a vacuum. The soldiers and civilians we read about did not exist in just one place … Continue reading
Posted in Civilian, Reconstruction, Slavery, USCT
Tagged African American Memoirs, Beaufort South Carolina, Camp Saxton, Civil War Connections, Emancipation Proclamation, Green-Meldrim Mansion, Reconstruction Era National Historical Park, Rufus Saxton, Savannah Georgia, Sherman's Headquarters, Susie King Taylor, William Sherman
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Echoes of Reconstruction: Stories of Atrocities at Civil War Prison Camps Increased Post-War Antagonisms
ECW is pleased to welcome back Patrick Young, author of The Reconstruction Era blog Civil War prisoner of war camps occupied a big part of the consciousness of the warriors and civilians on both sides during the final two years of the … Continue reading
Posted in Reconstruction
Tagged Andersonville, Andersonville of the north, Benjamin G. Cloyd, Civil War prisons, Elmira Prison, Hellmira, Henry Wirz, Jim Crow, Patrick Young, POW camps. Libby Prison, prisoner exchange, prisons, Reconstruction Blog, UDC, United Daughters of the Confederacy
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Family Reconstruction
ECW welcomes back Katy Berman… The July 20, 1865 edition of Vermont’s Rutland Weekly contained the following item:[1] It is a remarkably friendly account of a native son who fought against his schoolfellows in the late war. No bitterness is … Continue reading
Posted in Common Soldier, Primary Sources, Reconstruction
Tagged 28th Virginia, Castleton Medical College, Katy Berman, Vermont
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Echoes of Reconstruction: The USCT Continued to Serve After the War Was Over
ECW is pleased to welcome back Patrick Young, author of The Reconstruction Era blog July 18 was the 158th Anniversary of the assault of the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry on Battery Wagner near Charleston. The assault was the most famous single military … Continue reading
Posted in Reconstruction, USCT
Tagged 14th Amendment, 15th Amendment, 22nd USCT, 27th USCT, 54th Massachusetts, 56th USCT, 60th USCT, Camp Chase, Camp William Penn, Charles Bentzoni, freedmen's bureau, Glory, Godfrey Weitzel, Grand Review, Helena Arkansas, Henry Sweeney, Iowa, Milton Howard, Patrick Young, Reconstruction, Reconstruction Blog, Rock Island Arsenal
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Echoes of Reconstruction: An Immigrant Defender of Black Freedom
ECW is pleased to welcome back Patrick Young, author of The Reconstruction Era blog June is Immigrant Heritage Month, and no American military conflict was more impacted by immigrants than the American Civil War. Roughly a quarter of the United States forces … Continue reading
Posted in Common Soldier, Holidays, Reconstruction, USCT
Tagged 32nd USCT, 74th New York, E. Phillip Jacobson, Excelsior Brigade, Felix Brannigan, Francis Lieber, Germans, Immigrant Heritage Month, immigrants, irish, Patrick Young, Reconstruction, Reconstruction Era Blog, USCT, William T. Sherman
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BookChat with Richard Miller, author of John P. Slough
I was pleased to spend some time recently with a new biography by Richard Miller, John P. Slough: The Forgotten Civil War General, published by the University of New Mexico Press (find out more about it here). Miller is the … Continue reading
Posted in Book Review, Personalities, Politics, Reconstruction
Tagged 1st Colorado Infantry, Andrew Johnson, BookChat, Death Comes for the Chief Justice, Dick Miller, Glorieta Pass, John Milton Chivington, John P. Slough, New Mexico, Pottawatomie Creek, Richard Miller, Salmon P. Chase, westward expansion
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Echoes of Reconstruction: Roundup of Recent Books
ECW is pleased to welcome back Patrick Young, author of The Reconstruction Era blog Many of us expanded our reading during the lonely days of the Pandemic by taking old books off the shelves to read anew. I just settled in with … Continue reading
Posted in Book Review, Memory, Politics, Reconstruction
Tagged Absalom, Adam Domby, book reviews, civil rights, Congress at War, Constant Lecorge, Edward Ball, Fergus Bordewich, Fred Ogden, Frederick Douglass, Kate Masur, KKK, Ku Klux Klan, Life of a Klansman, Michael Gorra, New Orleans, Patrick Young, Reconstruction, Robert E. Lee and Me, Slavery, The False Cause, The Reconstruction Era Blog, The Sadddest Words, Ty Seidule, Until Justice Be Done, white supremacy, William Faulkner
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LBJ’s Gettysburg Address
On May 30, 1963, during the Civil War Centennial, Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson spoke at a Memorial Day ceremony in Gettysburg. You can listen to a recording of LBJ’s speech here. Here’s the text:
Posted in Primary Sources, Reconstruction, Slavery
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Gordon Rhea’s Forthcoming Book – Stephen A. Swails: Black Freedom Fighter in the Civil War and Reconstruction
Perhaps Gordon C. Rhea’s award-winning books about the Overland Campaign line a shelf in your library. Perhaps you’ve been on a tour to see the places he’s written about. Perhaps you’re counting down the days until the ECW Symposium in … Continue reading
