By Charles T. Joyce, with images and artifacts from the author’s collection A decade after the guns fell silent at Gettysburg, the battlefield’s first comprehensive tourist guide appeared in print:
By Charles T. Joyce David Wills’ work with other state agents dispatched to Gettysburg by their governors to deal with their own dead convinced the young attorney that a less
By Charles T. Joyce Immediately after issuing a congratulatory message to his victorious army on Independence Day 1863, Maj. Gen. George G. Meade sent a circular to his corps commanders,
By Charles T. Joyce David Wills orchestrated the logistics of disinterment and reburial. He solicited bids for the former and received 34 responses, choosing the low bid of $1.59 per
By Ronald S. Coddington, featuring an artifact from the Glen Hayes Collection The Fort Sumter story encompasses two unique moments in time. On April 12, 1861, the bombardment of the
By George S. Whiteley IV I’ve had a keen interest in military images from the very beginning of my antique photograph collecting pursuit nearly half a century ago. Sometimes a
By Marcy E. Zimmer Sometimes a face reveals a hidden story. At first glance, this portrait of an older gentleman and his wife leaves an impression of a simple and
By Ron Field The first few months of the Civil War were a period of experimentation with military hats and caps, particularly in the Northern states. One pattern used extensively
By Adam Ochs Fleischer Artificial intelligence (AI) is changing the world in myriad ways, from revolutionizing industries and transforming business operations, to enabling apps like TikTok to cleverly recommend exactly
On May 19, 1863, in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley near Winchester, Union troops captured Capt. Warren Griffith Welsh, 28, of the 1st Maryland Cavalry. Letters he carried and information he shared
