At the young age of 29, the Scranton-born soldier succumbed to injuries received in battle. Creeping up on nearly two centuries later, the Grand Army of the Republic Memorial Association of ...

Plus, thousands of Civil War recruits were young ... Soldier,” a compilation of one of the few caches of letters from a female soldier. That soldier, Sarah Rosetta Wakeman, left home and ...

They offer students opportunities to research and create paper or interactive biographical posters, delve into the intersection of military ... Tintype and Civil War Letters, each of which looks ...

Seventy Black Union military members who fought in the Civil War will be memorialized in a monument planned for Rocky Mount ...

An effort is afoot to tell the story of the 1st South Carolina Volunteers in a six-acre park between Boundary Street and ...

Pp. xvi, 302. Illus., maps, appends, notes, biblio., index. $26.50 paper. ISBN: 0809337630 Soldiers' Letters and Letter Writing in Civil War America Independent scholar Foltow draws upon extensive ...

Others show how a loved one was cherished through a photograph. This section displays objects that helped the soldier get through the atrocities of war—objects that have helped generations since in ...

As many as 20% of Civil War soldiers were younger than 18 ... They drove horses, cooked, and cared for siblings. They wrote letters to their absent relatives, and prayed for them to come home ...