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

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.

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

An account of the 71st Pennsylvania's debacle at the Battle of Ball's Bluff in October 1861.

Two decades after Lee surrendered at Appomattox Court House, a Pennsylvania veteran sparked a fierce debate over the memory of the event.

The Miners' Journal of Pottsville, PA published a victory poem written by a local man after Confederate surrender in April 1865.

George Bergner edited the "Telegraph" newspaper in the Pennsylvania state capital throughout the Civil War.

Harper's Weekly published "The Veteran" in January 1867. It documented the struggle of disabled Union veterans after the Civil War.

The Pennsylvania Daily Telegraph published an article from a Southern magazine threatening secession in the summer of 1860.

Private Rolandus Lytle succumbed to typhoid fever in Virginia on August 14, 1862. An officer wrote to Lytle's father with the sad news.

William W. Warren lost a medal he wore around his neck after being wounded and captured at the Battle of Antietam.

Wounded at Petersburg in June 1864, Sergeant Ephraim Myers soldiered through with the help of his full canteen of coffee.

Jeremiah Helms served as a drummer boy in the 50th Pennsylvania. He was mortally wounded at Antietam in September 1862.

George Snowden experienced Civil War combat for the first time during the Battle of Fredericksburg in December 1862.

In his memoir, Frederick Hitchcock vividly describes how he escaped death at the Battle of Fredericksburg.

Sallie Simonton's journal provides an incredible eye-witness account of Harrisburg's impromptu celebration on April 9, 1865.

A newspaper editorial lamented the horrific costs of the Civil War in a November 1864 editorial in the Pottsville "Miners' Journal."

In 1868, the representative of Westmoreland County in Congress spoke out in favor of excluding Confederate war dead from national cemeteries