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Tag Archives: Reconstruction Blog
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 … 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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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
MLK on How the Dunning School Distorted the Echoes of Reconstruction
ECW is pleased to welcome back Patrick Young, author of The Reconstruction Era blog Martin Luther King delivered a speech in 1968 at Carnegie Hall in New York to commemorate the 100th Birthday of W.E.B. DuBois. In his speech, King spoke about … Continue reading
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: Black History/Black Resistance
ECW welcomes back Patrick Young, author of The Reconstruction Era blog Reconstruction began while the Civil War was still raging. As Black refugees from slavery reached Union lines, they forced the United States government to reconstruct the relations of slave and master … Continue reading
Echoes of the Reconstruction Era: The Political Violence of 1868
ECW welcomes back Patrick Young, author of The Reconstruction Era blog Over the last month I have been researching political violence during the lead-up to the Election of 1868. This is remembered today as the year that Ulysses S. Grant … Continue reading
Posted in Internet, Websites & Blogs, Politics, Reconstruction
Tagged Echoes of the Reconstruction Era, freedmen's bureau, Horatio Seymour, KKK, Knights of the White Camellia, Ku Klux Klan, Patrick Young, Reconstruction, Reconstruction Blog, Ulysses S. Grant, Valvey Veillon, voter suppression
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