Blogger and historian Kevin Levin has added six new books to his Civil War Memory library. The new additions cover a wide variety of topics, including black Civil War regiments, escaped-slave refugee camps, infantry tactics, the state of race, law and public debt in Virginia, and biography. One entry, Joe Gould’s Teeth, is not exclusively […]

Laws are meant to protect us in more ways than we know, even from own ill fate with luck. According to recent reports from officals at the Gettysburg, tourists found themselves quite unlucky after pleading guilty to taking a few tokens and violating Federal Laws. Steal a rock from Gettysburg and risk the curse Thanks for reading.

Civil War Adventure Camp is a 16-hour overnight camp re-enactment experience. While this is a re-enactment of The Civil War, slavery is not mentioned and The Confederate flag is never flown. The main focus of the camp is military strategy and surviving the brutal serving conditions of serving during the 19th-century. Civil War Adventure Camp

An 86 year old woman was still receiving a pension from the Civil War from her father even though her father had switched sides during the war. He had first been with the confederate army where he fought with a few different regiments. In 1864 he went to fight for the union army and in

The National Museum of Civil War Medicine has been dropped from a Washington D.C. visitors guide because of its logo that includes the confederate battle flag. The museum stands by the logo, which depicts the union and confederate flags joined together by a caduceus symbol. But in the current racial and political climate where even

The Department of Veterans Affairs will no longer allow the flying of Confederate flags at national cemeteries on Memorial Day or Confederate Memorial Day. The move comes after language in House legislation banning Confederate flags from VA cemeteries was removed from the final bill. Supporters contacted the VA asking them to take action. Private groups,

It has recently been announced that a doctor will actually be portraying a quite famous surgeon that lived during the Civil War Era. The doctor is also a member of the Sons of Confederate Veterans as he has had family that has supported the Confederate. There is no admission charge but a donation is always

With racial tensions high in the wake of the Charleston shooting some municipalities, including the city of New Orleans, have elected to remove monuments to confederate Civil War figures. But author and preservationist Robert Lee Hodge wonders if that is the best course of action. While recognizing that the monuments may cause offense and outrage

The daughter of Confederate Civil War veteran, Iva Lee Benson Gainey of Benson, will be honored as a Real Daughter of Confederacy. She is one of a select few that are still surviving. Gainey’s father, Charles H. Benson, enlisted at age 20 and served as a private in the 24th North Carolina Regiment, Company I.