June 16 2025
A Hidden Jewel: The Captain Thomas Espy GAR Post

This is the last of a seven-part series reviewing the recent annual Civil War Symposium produced by the Andrew Carnegie Free Library & Music Hall in Carnegie, Pennsylvania. The Andrew Carnegie Free Library & Music Hall was one of many built by its namesake, Andrew Carnegie, an industrialist and philanthropist who was moved by the...

June 09 2025
In the Wake of Antietam: The Loudon Valley Campaign of 1862

This is the sixth of a seven-part series reviewing the recent annual Civil War Symposium produced by the Andrew Carnegie Free Library & Music Hall in Carnegie, Pennsylvania. 92,348.  That is the number of casualties the Army of the Potomac and Army of Northern Virginia had suffered from the start of the Seven Day’s Campaign...

May 27 2025
Carnegie Civil War Seminar Returns on June 2nd!

Due to the Memorial Holiday, the program review originally schedule for this week has been pushed back until June 2nd.  Check back next week to see what else is in store from the Carnegie Free Library & Music Hall Civil War seminar series!

May 19 2025
Antietam: The Soldier’s Experience

This is the fourth of a seven-part series reviewing the recent annual Civil War Symposium produced by the Andrew Carnegie Free Library & Music Hall in Carnegie, Pennsylvania. To many, the Civil War was, well, civil.  Somehow, despite all we know, it does not seem quite so terrible as the world wars that would follow...

May 05 2025
Harper’s Ferry: Lee’s Achilles (Revisited)

This is the second of a seven-part series reviewing the recent annual Civil War Symposium produced by the Andrew Carnegie Free Library & Music Hall in Carnegie, Pennsylvania. On March 24th we reviewed a presentation from the Central Virginia Battlefield Trust spring seminar by retired NPS Harper’s Ferry Historian Dennis Frye.  It takes a special...

April 28 2025
“Our Battle Flags Were Tattered…” The Maryland Campaign

This is the first of a seven-part series reviewing the recent annual Civil War Symposium produced by the Andrew Carnegie Free Library & Music Hall in Carnegie, Pennsylvania. With the weather still not quite at peak battlefield trekking conditions, the opportunity to explore the Civil War indoors with first-class scholars and historians (in some instances,...