Armed 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.
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Kendrick Gibbs
- Jun 15, 2020
"Ladies of York" - An Ohio soldier's letter thanking nurses at York General Hospital
"This is one of the mostly lovely places that I have seen since I bid farewell to my native home, in Ohio."
Jake Wynn
- May 7, 2020
A soldier's obituary - Corporal Bently Stark of the 57th Pennsylvania
An obituary for a Pennsylvania soldier who died of disease in August 1862.
Codie Eash
- Apr 12, 2020
“I saw the first meeting between Grant and Lee” – A Pennsylvania private’s Appomattox recollection
Two decades after Lee surrendered at Appomattox Court House, a Pennsylvania veteran sparked a fierce debate over the memory of the event.
Jake Wynn
- Apr 11, 2020
"The Glad Notes of Victory" - A poem for Confederate surrender in April 1865
The Miners' Journal of Pottsville, PA published a victory poem written by a local man after Confederate surrender in April 1865.
Kendrick Gibbs
- Apr 10, 2020
"Joy In Richmond" - Lancaster County's Response to the fall of the Confederate capital
How did the community of Lancaster, Pennsylvania react to news of Richmond's fall in 1865?
Jake Wynn
- Jan 31, 2020
Medal returned to its proper owner 40 years after it was lost at the Battle of Antietam
William W. Warren lost a medal he wore around his neck after being wounded and captured at the Battle of Antietam.
Jake Wynn
- Nov 8, 2019
"One common calamity" - A November 1864 lament over the Civil War's devastating costs
A newspaper editorial lamented the horrific costs of the Civil War in a November 1864 editorial in the Pottsville "Miners' Journal."
Kendrick Gibbs
- Jul 26, 2019
A "Wildcat" in Libby Prison - Letters from Stephen Sartwell's POW Experience
A Jefferson County native wrote to his wife about his time as a prisoner-of-war and how he felt to finally be free.
Jake Wynn
- Jul 23, 2019
"The destructiveness of war" - The Altoona Tribune's visit to the Antietam battlefield
In the days after the Battle of Antietam, a team of Pennsylvania journalists arrived on the battlefield to report on what they saw.
Codie Eash
- Jul 12, 2019
“A Terrible, and Yet Glorious Reality”: The Adams Sentinel on the Immediate Meaning of Gettysburg
An Adams County newspaper editor grappled with the meaning and consequences of the Battle of Gettysburg in the weeks after the fight.
Jake Wynn
- Jul 7, 2019
"A deplorable scene" - A description of Gettysburg after the battle
A reporter from Harrisburg's Patriot and Union newspaper described the scene at Gettysburg in the days after the 1863 battle.