By Ronald S. Coddington This portrait of a Confederate soldier sits squarely between two unique periods in history. On one side, his likeness recalls the whirlwind of patriotic fervor following
By Earvin Lee Joyner, Jr. The peaceful, serene landscape of the National Cemetery at Andersonville belies the suffering that occurred there some 150 years ago. Visitors to the Georgia site
When Kentuckians Elizabeth Taylor Nelson and John Rowzee Green married in 1839, they could never have imagined that five of their 13 children would become Confederate soldiers. They included 1st
Two young patriots, one wearing a military cap and the other with a Union pin attached to the placket of his shirt, enjoy fine cigars with red-tinted ash. Inscriptions in
Introduced by John Banks On nearly every step upon a Civil War battlefield, history, tragedy and spirits tug hard on the imagination. But perhaps none more so than at Antietam.
By William T. Campbell, Ed.D, RN A range of medical staff and support workers performed a critical function on both sides of the American Civil War, servicing general hospitals and
By Alison Renner Had I been there, Aug. 8, 1861, the day Joseph Parsons joined the Union army, I might have bartered for his place. I might’ve pleaded with him
One spring day in 1864, John W. Widney and Mary A. Fitzwater Brown were married in Orange, Ohio. The newlyweds were accompanied by John’s mother, Eliza, and Mary’s brother, John.
