This mourning cockade, with photo of Lincoln mounted in a portable metal frame, would have been worn on a hat, probably by a woman. More…
My article on Thomas Morris Chester, Black news correspondant in the Civil War, is posted at New York Times: Disunion. A few words (that didn’t fit…
My book review of poet Steve Scafidi’s book To the Bramble and the Briar is posted at Civil War Monitor: LINK I hope the review will…
Historians writing about General Benjamin Butler love to point out his not-ready-for-Hollywood personal appearance. “His features were brutish,” Adam Goodheart says in 1861, adding a…
The ballad “The Irish Volunteer,” written and performed by Irish-American Joe English and published in 1864, tells the story of an Irish rebel’s son who…
W. asked Corning [candidate for the pulpit of the Unitarian church on Benson street]: “And what may be the subject of your sermon tomorrow?” “My…