After the Civil War, Morrow said, her great-grandfather went on to a productive life that included founding a newspaper in St. Charles, Ill., and serving in 1890 as a U.S. census examiner for Cook ...

WHEN WE REFLECT ON THE bloody carnage of America`s Civil War, the names of Lincoln, Davis, Grant, Lee flash before us, all legends in the pages of history. Too little has been written of the common… ...

WASHINGTON — Letters and diaries from those who lived through the Civil War offer a new glimpse at the arguments that split the nation 150 years ago and some of the festering debates that ...

Read transcripts from the 1865 diary of a Civil War guard. At the 2008 ANTIQUES ROADSHOW event in Wichita, a guest brought his ancestor's fragile diary from 1865 to the Books & Manuscripts table ...

A code used by Civil War lieutenant was deciphered, more than 150 years later. Jim Gandy, assistant librarian at the New York State Military Museum, holds the diary of Confederate officer James M ...

HUNTSVILLE, Alabama -- Six months worth of research through Civil War diaries, letters and regimental histories show a small glimpse of what Huntsville looked like through the war years.

The diary is a significant acquisition for the New York State Military Museum, which holds one of the largest collections of Civil War items in the United States, said Museum Manager Michael Aikey.

Dr. Vincent Venturini has produced a courageous, well-written, well-documented and well-sourced book on the lifespan of Arabelle Daniel of Jackson.

The Civil War Diary of Emma Mordecai — edited by Dianne Ashton, Melissa R. Klapper. This article contains affiliate links. If you use these links to make a purchase, ...

For the first time the Civil War diary of LeRoy Wiley Gresham, son of a Macon, Ga., plantation owner, is being published into a book.

Civil War diaries bring $1,000 to $2,000 at auction, Flannery said, adding that he could see this going for much more if she were to sell it. Urban said that is unlikely.