Stuart Connell Nottingham relates in prose and poetry the beautiful story of a woman who served “in a small way in four wars.” Thank you,…
Though President Lincoln’s beautiful words were given on a cool November day, they are worth a rerun on this day. In a sense, we’re still…
Due to domestic pressure, I’ve wanted to do a post on cats of the Civil War. I tried, but came up with only one feline…
Nineteenth-century memoirs, letters, newspaper stories, and novels in the US were loaded, and sometimes larded, with American dialect. Civil War U.S. Navy paymaster William Keeler…
The Blue and the Gray have emerged from winter quarters. As the roads dry up and allow for the movement of artillery, the fighting heats…
Imagine a fireplace and live music on a passenger train…. In many ways, life in the Civil War era must have been, quite simply, a…