“Coloring imagery is as old as photography itself,” notes Matt Loughrey of My Colorful Past. A leader in the modern movement to colorize historic images using digital technologies, Loughrey follows
By Elizabeth A. Topping This carte de visite of an officer and ladies taken in Gettysburg, Pa., two years after the momentous battle fought in and about the town begs
By Elizabeth A. Topping The bloody conflict that raged in and around the Pennsylvania town of Gettysburg for three days in early July 1863 resulted in 51,000 casualties. They included
July 4, 1864, the 88th anniversary of American independence from Great Britain, marked the end of Confederate Brig. Gen. Alfred Jefferson Vaughan, Jr.’s combat career with the Army of Tennessee.
Among the men of faith who tended to the spiritual needs of the Florida Brigade of the Army of Tennessee was Robert Lemuel Wiggins. Born in Baldwin, Ga., Wiggins lived
The thin volume held by this Union enlisted man may have helped him pinpoint the movements of his regiment during its Southern tour. The pocket-sized book, G. Woolworth Colton’s New
By Adam Ochs Fleischer If you haven’t had the opportunity to peruse the Library of Congress’ digitized collection of Civil War glass plate negatives, I encourage you to do so.
Observers of a Confederate charge against Union troops during the early morning of Oct. 7, 1864, were in for a surprise. The rebels had just driven them from a position
Leonard August Frailey’s first gig as a naval officer was a plum assignment. In August 1864, authorities dispatched the newly minted acting assistant paymaster to the sidewheel steamer Quaker City.
By Mike Fitzpatrick As a result of the war, the federal government suspended specie payments to maintain its bullion reserves. The move forced Congress in 1861 to authorize the U.S.
