Others show how a loved one was cherished through a photograph. This section displays objects that helped the soldier get through the atrocities of war—objects that have helped generations since in ...

The English Civil Wars were a series of battles ... It does tell us about the effects of the war upon civilians. The first source is a soldier’s observations of the scale of human suffering ...

Anyway, today I’m interviewing one of the last Confederados who still speaks English with a ... of Confederate soldiers who fled the U.S. after the Civil War. After settling in Brazil over ...

Pillow, Tennessee on April 12, 1864 100,000+ — Number of Civil War Union corpses found in the South through a federal reinterment program from 1866-1869 303,356 — Number of Union soldiers who ...

As many as 20% of Civil War soldiers were younger than 18. That was the minimum recruiting age for Union soldiers, but many people willingly overlooked the law. The Confederacy set no minimum age.

Cook (now Lauren Cook Wike) wrote in their book “They Fought Like Demons: Women Soldiers in the American Civil War.” “When viewed against the backdrop of Victorian oppression, the appeal of ...