“The son of my very dear friend” – Lincoln, Curtin, and a favor for Edward Baker Jr.
Pennsylvania in the Civil War
Sergeant Lord Byron Green's Civil War - Part One
"Don't Care a Damn!" - The 45th Pennsylvania at the Battle of South Mountain
The 15th Pennsylvania Cavalry’s 1862 “Christmas foraging expedition”
A Christmas editorial from Philadelphia in the aftermath of South Carolina secession - 1860
Pennsylvania in the Election of 1860 - Facebook Live
Armed Confederates in the Capital – Tennessee Veterans Visit Washington, D.C.
U.S. Grant and Alex Hays, Part 4 – “He was weeping like a child”
Not a cross, but a “cross-roads hand-board” – The 142nd Pennsylvania monument at Gettysburg
“An American citizen of African descent” – Black men in the battle for Culp’s Hill at Gettysburg
"Ladies of York" - An Ohio soldier's letter thanking nurses at York General Hospital
U.S. Grant and Alex Hays, Part 3 – Woe in the Wilderness
U.S. Grant and Alex Hays, Part 2 – “Sam” and “Sandy” in the Civil War
U.S. Grant and Alex Hays, Part 1 – From West Point to Mexico
"The dire effects of war" - A Pennsylvania soldier's letter from war-time Washington
Carver Barracks - A Civil War encampment in Washington with deep ties to Pennsylvania
A soldier's obituary - Corporal Bently Stark of the 57th Pennsylvania
“Before I get killed” – The final days of General Alexander Hays
A visit to the Stones River battlefield with two Pennsylvania schoolteachers - May 1867
"A band of brothers" - A moving final letter to the men of the 57th Pennsylvania