The Montgomery Conference yesterday passed an act recognizing war with the United States, and authorizing the granting of letters of marque ... first time since the civil discord in the United ...

As Smith wrote, he placed question marks next to letters or symbols that were hard to make out definitively. These names had likely been left by Confederate soldiers during the opening months of the ...

Plus, thousands of Civil War recruits were young ... wrote in “An Uncommon Soldier,” a compilation of one of the few caches of letters from a female soldier. That soldier, Sarah Rosetta Wakeman, left ...