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

Very few letters or artifacts exist from the estaimted 180,000 black soldiers who fought in the war. BHS had to go outside New York City to find letters written by some of those soldiers.

1 / 6 Show Caption + Hide Caption – Ken Spurgeon, assistant professor of history at Friends University in Wichita, Kansas, talks about letters between Civil War soldier Christian Isely and his ...

In his latest book, "Testament: A Soldier's Story of the Civil War," historian Benson Bobrick finds himself telling a very personal tale of the Civil War. The book is the account of one Union ...

CARLINVILLE —A surprising number of letters and diaries from Civil War soldiers exist today, particularly from Illinois troops. An example is Duncan Ingraham, who lived in Macoupin County before ...

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.

Handwritten letters from Civil War soldier preserved on Long Island 02:35. ISLIP, N.Y.-- Scores of handwritten letters from a Civil War soldier to his wife have been donated to the Islip ...

In a letter to Lincoln, a black Civil War corporal asked a key question: "We have done a Soldier's duty. Why can't we have a Soldier's pay?" ...

In a letter to his wife, Abigail, 150 years ago, the Greenwich soldier Lt. Benjamin Wright expressed his satisfaction in chasing Confederate soldiers away during a Civil War encounter in North ...

SWARTZ CREEK, MI -- Len Thomas couldn't allow himself to let the story of Civil War soldier Harrison Harmon Carson become lost to the passage of time. So when he heard about worries over the ...

GREENFIELD — Seth Hill of Greenfield was not a happy member of the Union Army during the early days of the Civil War. In fact, he routinely asked his mother, Sally, to write ‘Mr. Lincoln’ in ...

Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS — A Civil War soldier’s rare letter describing a bloody battle and his vision of free blacks could fetch thousands of dollars when it goes up for auction later ...