One hundred and fifty years after the Battle of Gettysburg, efforts to award a Medal of Honor to a Civil War hero from Delafield who died on the Gettysburg battlefield have moved a step forward. An amendment to award Lt. Alonzo Cushing the nation’s highest honor passed last week in the House of Representatives as [...]
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Civil War battle site in Oklahoma named national historic landmark
March 12th, 2013 
javal A Civil War battle site in Oklahoma, where Indians fought on the sides of the Union and Confederacy, has been designated a national historic landmark, the U.S. Interior Department announced Monday. The Honey Springs Battlefield, in Muskogee and McIntosh counties, is among 13 new national historic landmarks. Others named Monday were the Connecticut home of [...]
U.S. House Approves Battlefield Preservation Protection Program
September 12th, 2012 javal The U.S. House of Representatives yesterday passed the American Battlefield Protection Program Amendments Act, a bipartisan bill authored by U.S. Rep. Rush Holt that would provide matching grants to preserve battlefields from the Revolutionary War, the War of 1812, and the Civil War. The legislation will now be sent to the U.S. Senate, where a [...]
150 years late or not, Civil War hero may yet get Medal of Honor
June 5th, 2012 javal Alonzo H. Cushing is close to receiving the Medal of Honor, nearly 150 years after his heroic actions at Gettysburg. A little-noticed provision of a House-approved defense bill would waive the time limit for posthumously bestowing the nation’s highest military honor, allowing the medal to be bestowed on the 22-year-old Union artillery lieutenant who died [...]
Sherman enshrined in statehouse museum
April 20th, 2012 javal Civil War general and Lancaster native William T. Sherman was one of six individuals on Thursday to be named a 2012 Great Ohioan by the Capitol Square Review and Advisory Board. The 2012 honorees were presented by the Capitol Square Foundation and unanimously approved by the full membership of the Capitol Square Review and Advisory [...]
Confederate soldiers’ fund won’t rise again
April 4th, 2012 javal Nearly 150 years after the Civil War concluded and decades since the last veteran died, the Kentucky Legislature is finally taking measures to take the Confederate Soldiers Pension Fund off the books. The House already passed the bill, sponsored by state Rep. Adam Koenig, and the Senate passed the bill March 27. It now awaits [...]
Civil War battlefields: Halves & halve-nots
March 29th, 2012 javal ONE YEAR into the four-year Civil War Sesquicentennial seems a queer time to halve federal funding for Civil War battlefield acquisition. Alas, that is what a House of Representatives subcommittee proposes, limiting the ability to add history to the public store just as interest in America’s definitional conflict is peaking (coming soon: Shiloh, Second Bull [...]
Battlefield Protections in Jeopardy?
March 24th, 2012 javal Will Congress reduce funding for the engine powering battlefield preservation even as commemoration of the American Civil War’s sesquicentennial shifts into high gear? That’s one question that naturally springs to mind while sifting through Thursday’s testimony by O. James Lighthizer, president of the Civil War Trust, before the House Committee on Appropriations’ interior subcommittee. Read [...]