A homesick soldier in the 130th Pennsylvania sat down in his camp near Falmouth, Virginia, in early 1863 to write a letter home to his loved ones. He included some homespun poetry.
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During the first winter of Civil War (1861-82), the Union Army operated a training camp
Ask most Civil War buffs to name ten Union generals that fought at Gettysburg, and
The 87th Pennsylvania is perhaps the best-known infantry regiment from York County, Pennsylvania, where the
The spring and summer of 1862 were the bloodiest (to that date) in the history
Bullets flew hot and thick on the morning of September 17, 1862, in the fields
In my last post, we looked at a description of York from a soldier, A.J.G.,
Within weeks of the Confederate bombardment of Fort Sumter in mid-April 1861, the U. S.
Railroad travel in the 19th century at times could be risky at times. Poor track
Throughout the Civil War, in towns both large and small, North and South, people gathered