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In 'Behind the Lines', a powerful new documentary narrated by Annette Bening, selections from the Center for American War ...
A previously unknown and unpublished letter from President Abraham Lincoln has been recovered for the first time. The Civil War-era letter, which was part of a private collection for over a ...
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 letters date to the 1860s. Most are filled front and back with the looping scrawl of Francis Farmer, a young man from Ephratah who served in the Civil War. Francis Farmer was born in New ...
Tonya Graham McQuade will share excerpts from "A State Divided: The Civil War Letters of James Calaway Hale and Benjamin Petree of Andrew County, Missouri, 1862-65," which includes 50 previously ...
Re: “Texas Civil War Museum to close — Showcase of artifacts from Union, Confederacy will be open through Oct. 31,” Sept. 13 Metro & Business story. Your report on the closing of the Texas ...
BLACKSBURG, Va. (WDBJ) - What’s now known as the Glencoe Museum in Radford used to be the home of Civil War Confederate General Gabriel Wharton. The home was passed down to his family.