Robert M. Magill, a Ringgold soldier in the Civil War, left behind a remarkable account of his war experiences. The previously published diary spans the four years of the year, which is remarkable ...

The Recruitment of Colored Troops in Kentucky, Maryland and Missouri, 1863-1865 / John W. Blassingame -- The Union Army as an Educational Institution for Negroes, 1862-1865 / John W. Blassingame -- ...

Private George W. Shinn was born on May 29, 1841, in Canton, Illinois, to John W. and Elizabeth Shinn. Shinn worked as a clerk for his father's drugstore prior to the outbreak of the Civil War. On May ...

This past August Army Private Sandy Wills was buried with full military honors at a veterans' cemetery in Memphis, Tennessee. Private Wills served his country, though not in this century, or the last.

In the mid-1800s, America was a profoundly religious place. The circumstances of a person's death was thought to indicate much about the nature of one's afterlife; a "good death" meant passing at home ...

How Did Service in Mexico Influence Later Performance? In recognition of the importance of the Mexican-American War in military education, Prof. Johnson (Lipscomb University) has collected essays on ...

Be there as Union soldiers drill ahead of battle, or when Gen. Robert E. Lee and Gen. Ulysses S. Grant discuss the terms of surrender, or when President Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg ...

CHARLES TOWN, W.Va. (DC News Now) — Jefferson County, in West Virginia’s eastern panhandle, experienced tremendous upheaval from the Civil War in and around Charles Town. On Saturday at 11:30 a.m. the ...

COON VALLEY, Wis. (WKBT) -- Students traded textbooks for muskets and classroom desks for military camps as Norskedalen Nature and Heritage Center hosted its Civil War Immersion Weekend, bringing ...