New Year’s Eve and Day are traditionally a time for merriment and optimism — even during wartime. The Civil War Monitor published a letter written on New Year’s Eve of 1862 by Captain ...

Civil War re-enactors will mark the 160th anniversary ... December when the occupation took place,” Kozak said. The 79th New York Volunteer Infantry was originally organized as a social club ...

There is also a smaller stone monument with a poem written on it, honoring the First New York Independent Battery, which was involved in 36 Civil War battles including the siege of Yorktown ...