In 1897, Lord Byron Green of Fleetville, PA began publishing his memoirs of the Civil War in a Scranton newspaper.

The 45th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry received its baptism by fire at the Battle of South Mountain in September 1862.

On the outskirts of Nashville, Tennessee, the troopers of the 15th Pennsylvania Cavalry experienced a memorable Christmas holiday.

On Christmas Day 1860, the Philadelphia Inquirer took a swipe at South Carolina's secession with a holiday op-ed.

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EJ Murphy stumbled across this story of Confederate veterans in Washington in the pages of a Scranton newspaper from 1907.

In the decades after the Civil War, President Ulysses Grant made mournful visits to the grave of his friend Alexander Hays in Pittsburgh.

Codie Eash explores the fascinating story of a unique monument to a Pennsylvania regiment on the Gettysburg battlefield.

Amid the intense fighting on Culp's Hill during the Battle of Gettysburg, a Black man took up arms and joined US soldiers in combat.

"This is one of the mostly lovely places that I have seen since I bid farewell to my native home, in Ohio."

In part three of the Codie Eash's series on U.S. Grant and Alexander Hays, he examines the death of Hays in the Battle of the Wilderness.

In part two of this series, Codie Eash explores the Civil War relationship between Alexander Hays and Ulysses S. Grant.

Codie Eash explores the relationship between Ulysses S. Grant and Pennsylvanian Alexander Hays dating back to their time at West Point.

A letter written in September 1862 reveals the anxiety and chaos swirling in Washington on the eve of Antietam.

Lieutenant James M. Carver of the 104th Pennsylvania designed a barracks that became famous in Washington during the Civil War.

An obituary for a Pennsylvania soldier who died of disease in August 1862.

General Alexander Hays was one of the most colorful officers to serve in the Civil War. He was killed in battle in May 1864.

Hannah Streeper and Fannie Couch taught black students at the Pottsville Freedmen's School in Murfreesboro, Tennessee after the Civil War.

The officers of the 57th Pennsylvania penned a letter to the survivors of the regiment as they prepared to muster out of the US Army in 1865

The final entry in Codie Eash's series about Gettysburg and the end of the Civil War focuses on the aftermath of the Lincoln assassination.