Medal returned to its proper owner 40 years after it was lost at the Battle of Antietam
Pennsylvania in the Civil War




- Jan 22, 2020
Mud and Graybacks - 125th Pennsylvania Infantry and the 'Mud March'


- Jan 10, 2020
A wounded Pennsylvania soldier's dedication to coffee showed in 1864


- Jan 7, 2020
Letter from a Pennsylvania drummer boy – April 1862


- Dec 24, 2019
“Pleasanter reminiscences of this famous town” – Christmas at Gettysburg in 1861


- Dec 21, 2019
“I hope we shall whip them yet” – The 132nd Pennsylvania at Fredericksburg


- Dec 20, 2019
A casualty of Dranesville - The tragic story of Captain Robert Galway


- Dec 18, 2019
"Pennsylvania at the Battle of Fredericksburg" - Recap of our December 2019 live-stream


- Dec 17, 2019
Pennsylvanians who earned Medals of Honor at the Battle of Fredericksburg


- Dec 17, 2019
"First fight" - George Snowden sees the elephant at the Battle of Fredericksburg


- Dec 13, 2019
“Like snow coming down on warm ground” – What a future Pennsylvania commander saw at Fredericksburg


- Dec 12, 2019
"Supposed to be my death wound" - A Pennsylvania soldier's story of survival at Marye's Heights


- Nov 27, 2019
“A pouring out of grateful hearts” – Gettysburg’s connection to the first national Thanksgiving Day


- Nov 23, 2019
"We had cause to rejoice" - Diary reveals how Harrisburg celebrated news of Confederate surrender


- Nov 9, 2019
How the Pennsylvania press reacted to Lincoln’s reelection in 1864


- Nov 8, 2019
"One common calamity" - A November 1864 lament over the Civil War's devastating costs


- Nov 7, 2019
Lieutenant Isaiah Conley’s daring escape from Rebeldom


- Nov 1, 2019
Exploring Philadelphia’s Civil War – Monument to Major General John F. Reynolds


- Oct 29, 2019
Virtual reality videos from American Battlefield Trust show harsh realities of the Civil War


- Oct 24, 2019
The Pennsylvania veterans who opposed Gettysburg’s first Confederate monument