A new collection of primary source documents, "The 1863 Stibbs Family Civil War Era Letters," is the third set of letters ...

There are a lot of books on Civil War letters but this is a very complete set. I just couldn't let them slip by unnoticed." Thomas, 72, of Swartz Creek, ...

Bobrick says the book is a story constructed from about 90 letters written by Webb during the Civil War. Up until 1998, those letters were buried in the desks and trunks of various relatives of ...

Civil War letters popular for research worldwide. A similar project has already been undertaken in Kentucky, involving about 10,000 documents.

The book 'Letters to Lizzie: The Story of Sixteen Men in the Civil War and the Woman Who Connected Them All' chronicles the daily lives of soldiers.

A letter written on patriotic stationary circa 1860s. More than 30,000 men from Brooklyn fought in the American Civil War. Bennett family collection/Brooklyn Historical Society ...

GERMANTOWN — Every time I pass any sort of display of a Confederate flag around here — whether it hangs from a trailer in Livingston or sticks to a truck’s ...

How to preserve Civil War letters November 9, 2016 Virginia Coleman Hoag of Dillwyn, Va., looking at a page from the family Bible that lists births, including John Winn Moseley’s.

A Civil War soldier’s 160-year-old letters, discovered in a shoe box in Rhode Island, have been donated to an Islip historical society where they are being transcribed and made into a book.

The Civil War is alive and so is Samuel Stratton in a series of letters purchased for 25 cents at a garage sale that were written by a young union soldier to his family during combat. Laurie ...