I’ve been scanning old family photos and documents for a while now, treasuring memories and making discoveries. Some have been the crumbling yellowed pages of letters home from soldiers and their ...

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

For Confederate Army scout with Powhatan ties, life after the Civil War was devoted to spreading the word of God—and to ...

When Bill Hanchett died in 2016, his son found a bundle of letters and postcards to family that he had written while in the Army Air Forces during World War II. The letters tell a story of the war ...

For Confederate Army scout with Powhatan ties, life after the Civil War was devoted to spreading the word of God—and to ...

Donald Trump’s disinformation presidency has found the Civil War. A plaque installed by Donald at his Potomac River golf course reads “The River of Blood.” ...

Unlike later wars when soldier letters were heavily censored, Civil War correspondence is unadulterated. It is remarkable for showing the size and scale of the conflict, how men from farms and ...

Sometimes the letters themselves tell stories that transcend words. One, pulled from the body of a Confederate soldier killed at the 1863 Battle of Chancellorsville, is splotched with mud and blood.

He was part of the 69th Indiana Regiment that trained in Richmond to fight in the Civil War. The letter is simple and heartfelt, and contains the names of other East Central Indiana 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.

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 ...

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 ...