Something unpleasant in Mount Pleasant
Towns in Missouri were often divided between Union and Confederate supporters. Local institutions such as stores, lodges, and churches became political battlegrounds...
Staying warm
The three Confederate soldiers huddled around a fire in this photograph were stationed on picket duty. Units on both sides stationed a picket guard, consisting of a...
Stonewall Jackson
Lieutenant General Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson, a revered Confederate commander, graduated from West Point in and served the U.S. Army in the Mexican War. He...
Testimony to bravery
In this affidavit, filed on January 15, 1900, Lewis H. Douglass supported the Medal of Honor application for former Sgt. William H. Carney of the 54th Massachusetts...
The Confederacy Goes to War!
The Confederacy considered itself the victim of Northern aggression. Its efforts to negotiate separation had failed. So on May 6, 1861, the Confederate Congress...
“The Fighting Irish”
On September 17, 1862, the Union and Confederate armies met at Sharpsburg, Maryland, in the Battle of Antietam. New York’s 69th Volunteer Infantry Regiment, part of...
The surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia
On April 9, 1865, Union Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant and Confederate General Robert E. Lee met in Wilmer McClean’s home at Appomattox Court House, Virginia,...