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

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

As we look back at the Civil War, it’s easy to be overwhelmed by its magnitude and importance to our history. More than 600,000 Americans lost their lives in a conflict that changed the lives of ...

The book 'Letters to Lizzie: The Story of Sixteen Men in the Civil War and the Woman Who Connected Them All' chronicles the daily lives of soldiers.

See what this Manitowoc Civil War soldier wrote home about from the front lines in April 1864 Manitowoc County sent 2,467 men to the front lines of the Civil War, nearly all of them volunteers.

Out of Our Past: Civil War soldier's letter home illustrates hardship, sacrifice Steve Martin On Jan. 25, 1863, Corporal Orlistes R. Catey of Williamsburg wrote a letter to his wife from an ...

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 ...