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The Battle of Liberty Place is a contest happened on September 14,1874 between the Democratic White League and the Reconstruction Era Louisiana state government. It was resulted from the controversial 1872 gubernatorial election that both Democrat…

The United Daughters of the Confederacy was an organization established by female descendant of the Confederate soldiers since1894 in Nashville, Tennessee. The main goals of the organization include to honour the Confederated soldiers served in the…

The Sons of Confederate Veterans is a non-profit organization founded in 1896 to commemorate the Confederated soldiers, to protect historic heritages of the Civil War and erect Confederate memorials. It is the successor of the United Confederate…

The Battle of New Bern was fought near New Bern, North Carolina on March 14, 1862 where Frazar Stearns lost his life. The Belligerents are the US Army's Coast Division, Union soldiers led by Ambrose Burnside and the Confederate soldiers led by…

He Gave away his Life is commonly considered as a poem which Emily Dickinson written for Frazar Stearns, a young man who lost his life in the Battle of New Bern. She expressed her emotion to regrettable death of the family’ s close friend and beloved…

This is an article by Don M. Mahan published in the Journal of Arizona History in the autumn of 2019. It reviews the life experience from cradle to grave and elaborates his contributions to Arizona and southwestern history as a successful businessman…

The Andersonville Trial is a Broadway play written by Saul Levitt and was presented in 1959 which focuses on the actual trial of Henry Wirz happened in 1865. The play was adapted to television drama in 1970 and won the 1971 Emmy Awards and a Peabody…

A granite obelisk some twenty seven and a half feet in height with a cruciform base, the Ladd and Whitney Monument was erected in memory of Luther Crawford Ladd and Addison Ottis Whitney, residents of Lowell. Ladd and Whitney, who are widely reported…

The Rockery is a memorial cairn created by "The Father of American Landscape Architecture', Frederick Law Olmsted. Olmsted preferred the cairn to masonry or sculpture as he envisaged the symbolic growth of plants over the rockery of battle; its crest…