We in the modern world sometimes think of ourselve...  ...rt of their marriage while he was fighting in the Civil War . The love expressed in those letters is breathtak...

Spotswood Rice had been born a slave. But by Septe...  ...ine Diggs, to know that he would return after the war to collect his daughter. So he sent Diggs a lette...

The following is an article from the book Uncle Jo...  ...Congress. In between, he helped the Union win the Civil War by doing what no black American had ever done bef...  ...saved $700 of the $800 purchasing price when the Civil War broke out in 1861. Then everybody's life was put...  ...ought you some of the o...

Last year marked the 150th anniversary of the...  ...he 150th anniversary of the first gunshots of the Civil War -and the first gunshot wounds. As it turns out, t...  ...st gunshot wounds. As it turns out, the bloodiest war in American history was also one of the most infl...  ...of the most influential in battl...

(video link) This clip, recorded in the 1930s,...  ...ibrary of Congress' collection of rare footage of Civil War veterans committed to film before they passed on....  ...and how they give us a glimpse into not only the Civil War

How a coffee shortage killed the Confederacy. E...  ...lled the Confederacy. Even in the midst of the Civil war , there was still one thing that the North and the...  ...tle bean, leaving the Confederacy to wage its own war against java deprivation. COFFEE: IT'S WHATS F...  ...KFAST, LUNCH, AND DINNER...

It has been 150 years since the US Civil War began. How should we mark the anniversary? The fi...  ...rk the anniversary? The first recorded reunion of Civil War soldiers (Union only) took place a mere ten years...  ...place a mere ten years after the beginning of the war . The...

Sticking your face into someone else's picture...  ...tly as old as photography itself -or at least the Civil War . Link

Among hundreds of women who acted as spies during...  ...g hundreds of women who acted as spies during the Civil War , Elizabeth Van Lew stands out as one of the most...  ...ble information received from Richmond during the war .” Despite her bravery and the Union victory, V...  ...rs and found it hard to sup...

Ah, the 19th century, when men wore their manl...  ...arber. Luckily, cameras were around during the US Civil War so that we may still admire the mustaches, beards...