“The son of my very dear friend” – Lincoln, Curtin, and a favor for Edward Baker Jr.
Pennsylvania in the Civil War




- Sep 22, 2021
Sergeant Lord Byron Green's Civil War - Part One


- Sep 12, 2021
"Don't Care a Damn!" - The 45th Pennsylvania at the Battle of South Mountain


- Dec 25, 2020
The 15th Pennsylvania Cavalry’s 1862 “Christmas foraging expedition”


- Dec 23, 2020
A Christmas editorial from Philadelphia in the aftermath of South Carolina secession - 1860


- Aug 16, 2020
Pennsylvania in the Election of 1860 - Facebook Live

- Jul 9, 2020
Armed Confederates in the Capital – Tennessee Veterans Visit Washington, D.C.


- Jul 8, 2020
U.S. Grant and Alex Hays, Part 4 – “He was weeping like a child”


- Jul 4, 2020
Not a cross, but a “cross-roads hand-board” – The 142nd Pennsylvania monument at Gettysburg


- Jul 3, 2020
“An American citizen of African descent” – Black men in the battle for Culp’s Hill at Gettysburg

- Jun 15, 2020
"Ladies of York" - An Ohio soldier's letter thanking nurses at York General Hospital


- Jun 7, 2020
U.S. Grant and Alex Hays, Part 3 – Woe in the Wilderness


- May 28, 2020
U.S. Grant and Alex Hays, Part 2 – “Sam” and “Sandy” in the Civil War


- May 26, 2020
U.S. Grant and Alex Hays, Part 1 – From West Point to Mexico


- May 15, 2020
"The dire effects of war" - A Pennsylvania soldier's letter from war-time Washington


- May 9, 2020
Carver Barracks - A Civil War encampment in Washington with deep ties to Pennsylvania


- May 7, 2020
A soldier's obituary - Corporal Bently Stark of the 57th Pennsylvania


- May 6, 2020
“Before I get killed” – The final days of General Alexander Hays


- May 1, 2020
A visit to the Stones River battlefield with two Pennsylvania schoolteachers - May 1867


- Apr 24, 2020
"A band of brothers" - A moving final letter to the men of the 57th Pennsylvania