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Tag Archives: Patrick Young
Echoes of Reconstruction: The Spread of Juneteenth Celebrations Throughout Texas
ECW is pleased to welcome back Patrick Young, author of The Reconstruction Era blog I had never heard of Juneteenth until I was attending college in Buffalo, New York in 1977. Friends asked me if I was going to stay after the … Continue reading
Posted in Holidays, Newspapers, Question of the Week
Tagged black history, Galveston, Juneteenth, Patrick Young, Reconstruction Blog, Union veterans
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Happy 200th Birthday, Ulysses S. Grant!
I think we sometimes forget the magnitude of what Ulysses S. Grant did: he saved the United States of America. That’s no small thing, saving the country. And he did so in a way that ensured the end of slavery, … Continue reading
Echoes of Reconstruction: President Grant Reorganized the White House As Soon As He Took Office
ECW is pleased to welcome back Patrick Young, author of The Reconstruction Era blog Ulysses S. Grant was sworn in as president on March 4, 1869. The immensely unpopular incumbent Andrew Johnson was finally deposed. The new President’s wife Julia Dent Grant … Continue reading
Echoes of Reconstruction: Black History Month and the Erasure of Black History
ECW is pleased to welcome back Patrick Young, author of The Reconstruction Era blog I remember taking my kids to visit Stone Mountain in Georgia around 1991. At the time, the “park” was a sort of Confederate Disneyland that mixed faux Civil … Continue reading
Posted in Civil War in Pop Culture, Memory, Reconstruction, Slavery
Tagged Alabama, Atlanta, black history month, Carter G. Woodson, Echoes of Reconstruction, Georgia, Gone with the Wind, Henry House Hill, KKK, Ku Klux Klan, Lost Cause, Manassas National Battlefield, Marie Bankhead Owen, Negro History Week, Patrick Young, Reconstruction, Sons of Confederate Veterans, Stone Mountain, United Daughters of the Confederacy, USCT
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Echoes of Reconstruction: E. P. Alexander in Washington and the Lincoln Assassination
ECW is pleased to welcome back Patrick Young, author of The Reconstruction Era blog We all know that Ulysses S. Grant gave uncommonly generous terms of surrender to Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia at Appomattox in April, 1865. Rather than … Continue reading
Echoes of Reconstruction: Misusing the History of the Civil War Era in Drafting Alabama’s Constitution
ECW is pleased to welcome back Patrick Young, author of The Reconstruction Era blog Usually we think of the study of history as a good starting point for the drafting of new laws. This is especially true when a state adopts a … Continue reading
Posted in Memory, Reconstruction, USCT
Tagged 15th Amendment, Alabama, Alabama Constitutional Convention, Alabama state constitution, Columbia University, Dunning School, Echoes of the Reconstruction Era, Fifteenth Amendment, John Knox, Patrick Young, Reconstruction, Redeemers, The Reconstruction Era Blog, United States Colored Troops, USCT, white supremacy, William A. Dunning
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Echoes of the Lost Cause: Autumn of the Lost Cause
ECW is pleased to welcome back Patrick Young, author of The Reconstruction Era blog The last month has been one of dislocation for those of us devoted to studying the Civil War and Reconstruction. Nathan Bedford Forrest was literally relocated, or at … Continue reading
Posted in Monuments, Reconstruction, Slavery, USCT
Tagged 54th Massachusetts, Alabama, American Battlefields Trust, Battle of Franklin Trust, Brown's Island, Emancipation Memorial, Franklin, John Knox, Lost Cause, Mary Bowser, Memphis, monument avenue, Nathan Bedford Forrest, National Museum of African American History and Culture, Patrick Young, Reconstruction Blog, Richmond, Rippavilla, Robert E. Lee statue in Richmond, Slavery, USCT, William Carney
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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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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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