In 'Behind the Lines', a powerful new documentary narrated by Annette Bening, selections from the Center for American War ...

The Civil War Letters of Christian and Elise Dubach Isely,” and the inferences that can be made through those letters. Isely was stationed at Fort Leavenworth for about 18 months, from October ...

A letter writer expressed the idea of a “stupid question” regarding the column about how Florida still honors two traitors to ...

The Wharton family came across over a thousand Civil War documents dating from the 1840s to the 1900s, firsthand accounts during wartime in southwest Virginia, and around 500 love letters between ...

“The Knox letters are the best collection of family papers of the Civil War period from Fredericksburg that I have ever seen,” said John Hennessy, chief historian of Fredericksburg and ...

John Leach learned that his great-great grandfather served in the Civil War and was buried without a gravestone, so he did ...

While Memorial Day was this past Monday, today marks what was once an important, similar holiday known as Decoration Day and ...

Author David Handy will discuss his latest book, “I Think I Shall See a Hundred Battles: The Civil War Letters of Captain ...

She’ll tell the story of rummaging through the basement of her Winston-Salem home in the mid-1980s and finding eight letters and two ... to his wife during the Civil War. The letters were ...