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My First Gettysburg Remembrance Day: In Memory to the Civil War Soldiers

On November 19, 2011, I drove to Gettysburg to participate in my first Remembrance Day activities. Gettysburg has been my favorite Civil War battlefield since my first visit as an eight-year-old kid! Every time I visit, it is a special day for me and I see something that I have not seen before. The memories of […]

“Hellmira”—a Place of “Terrible Memory,” Nearly Forgotten

Driving through Elmira, New York, last week, a comment from David Blight’s Race and Reunion sprang to mind. In the book, he quotes Clay MacCauley, a veteran from Rhode Island: “The infamous sites of Civil War prisons, [MacCauley] wrote, were forever ‘those places of terrible memory.’” The most infamous Civil War prison in the north […]