Civil War December 1863 brought 'war meetings' to raise more troops and entice re-enlistments with promise of holiday furloughs. Published: ; Dec. 01, 2013, 6:59 a.m.

Civil War, November 1863: Gettysburg Address, first national Thanksgiving, local boys are heroes. Published: ; Nov. 03, 2013, 8:27 a.m.

The Brooklyn Historical Society pulled from its archive of letters, artifacts and over 50,000 photographs to put together the "Photography and Letter-Writing in Civil War Brooklyn" exhibit, which ...

BUCKFIELD — A Civil War soldier from Paris, lost during the Battle of Fort Wagner in 1863, finally received recognition for service to his country on May 1, when a headstone in his honor was ...

Samuel Holmes Doten of Plymouth, Mass., was born June 5, 1812, so after the Civil War ended in 1865, he would joke that he “served in the infantry in the war of that date.” William Kendall ...

Civil War Soldier Gets Gravestone More Than 150 Years After 1863 Death: 'Makes You Feel Proud' Atwood Young was killed during the Battle of Fort Wagner in South Carolina, his great-great-grandsons ...

Civil War Soldiers Used Hair Dye to Make ... Camp Nelson was founded in June 1863 as a U.S. Army ... Over the course of the war—which lasted between 1861 and 1865—demand for photos ...

Black Civil War Soldiers in Photographs. 2021-02-27T18:59:31-05:00 https: ... The Black Civil War Soldier: A Visual History of Conflict and Citizenship.

Through a rich archive of forgotten Civil War-era photographs, historian Deborah Willis uncovers the often overlooked role of African American soldiers, cooks and medical workers.

As any Civil War buff worth his salted hardtack knows, Confederate soldiers never intended to fight at Gettysburg when they invaded Pennsylvania in June 1863. Their plan was to cross the ...

Many consider July 4, 1863 to be the turning point of the American Civil War. Two important, famous, well-documented battles resulted in Confederate defeats: the Battle of Gettysburg (Pennsylvania ...

Through a rich archive of forgotten Civil War-era photographs, historian Deborah Willis uncovers the often overlooked role of African American soldiers, cooks and medical workers.