Dying Far From Home – Corp. James A. Kane, Co. C, 6th USCI
Drafted! Imagine getting word that the government demanded your service in [...]
Dying Far From Home – Pvt. John Miles, Co. B, 38th USCI
When the Civil War began in 1861, many men enlisted [...]
Dying Far From Home: Sgt. Jacob A. Moss, Co. H, 5th USCI
What’s in a name? For a Civil War soldier, in a [...]
Dying Far From Home – Pvt. Perry Hamilton, Co. K, 6th USCI
The 6th United States Colored Infantry (USCI) recruited its soldiers [...]
“Will Miss Him Sadly:” Capt. Samuel W. Vannuys, Co. E, 4th USCI
The research process often uncovers helpful evidence that fill in [...]
Capt. Charles Volney York, Co. B, 6th USCI
Image Courtesy of the Pamplin Historical Park Photographic images of Civil [...]
Dying Far From Home – Sgt. Lafayette Tibbs, Co. H, 5th USCI
The Civil War was by and large a young man’s conflict. [...]
Dying Far From Home – Pvt. William Richfield, Co. B, 4th USCI
Courtesy of the Maryland Historical Society [...]
Dying Far From Home – Sgt. James Lea, Co. K, 22nd USCI
The lack of surviving pre-war personal information about men who [...]
Dying Far From Home – Pvt. John Henry Gough, Co. D, 38th USCI, and Pvt. Thomas Gough, Co. F, 38th USCI
The Chesapeake Bay area proved to be a particularly fruitful recruiting [...]