Guest ContributorJul 9, 2020Armed Confederates in the Capital – Tennessee Veterans Visit Washington, D.C.EJ Murphy stumbled across this story of Confederate veterans in Washington in the pages of a Scranton newspaper from 1907.
Codie EashJul 8, 2020U.S. Grant and Alex Hays, Part 4 – “He was weeping like a child”In the decades after the Civil War, President Ulysses Grant made mournful visits to the grave of his friend Alexander Hays in Pittsburgh.
Codie EashJul 4, 2020Not a cross, but a “cross-roads hand-board” – The 142nd Pennsylvania monument at GettysburgCodie Eash explores the fascinating story of a unique monument to a Pennsylvania regiment on the Gettysburg battlefield.
Jake WynnMay 1, 2020A visit to the Stones River battlefield with two Pennsylvania schoolteachers - May 1867Hannah Streeper and Fannie Couch taught black students at the Pottsville Freedmen's School in Murfreesboro, Tennessee after the Civil War.