The new book, "The 1863 Stibbs Family Civil War Era Letters," sheds light on the Civil War home front and the complex realities of race and belief of one Wooster family. The 1863 volume builds on the ...

WOOD COUNTY, Wis. (WAOW) - After a long historic journey across the country, old Civil War artifacts that predate 1860, have made their way to Wisconsin. Historical Point Basse is already home to Wood ...

April 1 -- The following excerpt comes from the new book War Letters : Extraordinary Correspondence from American Wars, by Andrew Carroll (Editor) and Douglas Brinkley (Introduction). Excerpt from The ...

With the Civil War Sesquicentennial Celebration at hand, my thoughts have gone back to my own ancestors who lived — and in some cases, died — during that tumultuous time in history. One in particular ...

"A stunning collection of stoic portraits and intimate ephemera from the lives of Black Civil War soldiers Though both the Union and Confederate armies excluded African American men from their initial ...

In 'Behind the Lines', narrated by Annette Bening, selections from the bestselling books 'War Letters' and 'Behind the Lines' are brought to life by stars like Laura Dern and Common Getty; Sypher ...

MIDDLEPORT – For more than a century, the letters sat in a tiny Niagara County farmhouse, a precious link to one of the nation's bloodiest struggles. The long-forgotten ink – spread across yellowed ...

ON THE ALTAR OF FREEDOM : A BLACK SOLDIERS CIVIL WAR LETTERS FROM THE FRONT JAMES HENRY GOODING EDITED BY VIRGINIA MATZKE ADAMS FOREWORD BY JAMES M MCPHERSON ...

On June 8, 1864, Captain Dexter Ludden and his men from the 8th New York Heavy Artillery were picking their way through corpses. They had been assigned the unpleasant task of burying some of the many, ...

Civil War artifacts and historical materials were the focus of a presentation during a Quincy Gillmore Civil War Round Table meeting held at Lorain County Community College on Feb. 2. The meeting took ...