Tim Talbott

Historians estimate that perhaps as many as twenty percent of Civil [...]

During the Civil War, soldiers sometimes attempted to describe the nature [...]

On October 10, 1858, Emanuel Patterson stood beside Elizabeth Perrill in the [...]

African Americans in mid-nineteenth century America experienced the road to [...]

Image Courtesy of the Pamplin Historical Park Too often, when [...]

Although our soldier-focused articles are often titled “Dying Far From [...]

Image courtesy of Pamplin Historical Park and the National Museum of [...]

Conscripting (drafting) men for United States military service and the expanded [...]

The obvious purpose of Civil War-era’s minie ball was to inflict [...]

Image courtesy of the Library of Congress. When I first [...]