One the country’s greatest Civil War historians has won a lifetime achievement award. James M. McPherson is best known for the Pulitzer Prize-winning “Battle Cry of Freedom.” Read Entire Article
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NY Civil War prison camp building to be rebuilt
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A building from a former Civil War prison camp in Elmira is going to be reconstructed at the original site of the camp, with plans to open it as a museum site. Read Entire Article
Veterans seek ‘Glory’ for Civil War colonel
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A veterans group will present a petition next week to the New York delegation of Congress asking that the Medal of Honor be awarded to Civil War Col. Robert Gould Shaw Read Entire Article
Civil War generals were opposing men on opposing sides
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This week marks almost 150 years since the end of the American Civil War, a struggle between citizens that saw friends, family members and former comrades fight against each other. Read Entire Article
New York Today: Searching for the Civil War
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This is a big week in our nation’s history: in April 1865, Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant, ending the Civil War. What does the Civil War have to do with New York, you ask? Plenty, it turns…
A Brooklyn Woman’s Colorful Quilt, Illustrating Her Experience of the Civil War
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Lucinda Ward Honstain, resident of Williamsburg, Brooklyn, pieced and sewed this quilt in 1867. It depicts her view of life before, during, and right after the Civil War. Read Entire Article
How an Oswego surgeon was accused in daring plot to kill Jefferson Davis
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One-hundred-and-fifty years ago a U.S. Army surgeon from Oswego clung to life in a disgusting basement cell of one of the most infamous prisons in American history, his body ravaged by disease and cold. Read Entire Article
NY Civil War hero’s letters going to his hometown
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A collection of letters written by a famous Civil War general is being donated to his western New York hometown. The Daily News of Batavia reports that 13 military letters written by Gen. Emory Upton… Read Entire Article