The World in Time

John Strausbaugh

Friday, August 18, 2017

The 7th New York Militia Regiment marches down Broadway, an illustration from Harper’s Weekly, 1861.

The northernmost Civil War battle was fought in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, and though Confederate soldiers never came within three hundred miles of Manhattan, New York City was far from untouched by the conflict—the ships dispatched by President Lincoln to quell the rebellion’s beginning at Fort Sumter, for example, sailed from New York harbor. Rebel sympathizers, abolitionists, immigrants, and freed slaves all called the city home and the conflict colored every aspect of New York life.

 

Lewis H. Lapham talks with John Strausbaugh, author of City of Sedition: The History of New York City During the Civil War.

 

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Cover of City of Sedition

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