City Point National Cemetery was established 1866, according to the US VA. “Casualties were originally interred in burial grounds near the hospitals, and later they…
Green could be hard to come by, even for the Irish, in the nineteenth century. A one-step green color was not available to textile artists…
“The laborers about the wharfs, when not negroes, were almost without exception Irish….” In his 1910 memoir, Chicago journalist Frederick Francis Cook cites the collision…
The unlimited and easy procurement of opiates troubled 19th century pharmacists…. Opium was a must in the pharmacy of the nineteenth century, as a painkiller,…
At Oakwood Cemetery in Richmond, I had the fortune to meet F. Lee Hart, III, of the Sons of Confederate Veterans. Mr. Hart shared a…
The bare, sweeping vista from the crest of Malvern Hill, and the quiet, undecorated landscape evoke poignantly the presence of those who struggled and died…