John Banks, Author at HistoryNet

Recovered photos published in newspapers

Can You Help Solve These Gettysburg Photo Mysteries?

by John Banks9/14/20229/14/2022

Postwar newspapers provided clues
to two Gettysburg photo mysteries.
We don’t have answers — yet.

Dirk Warner stands on Cumberland Church battlefield

The One-Man Caretaker to One of the Civil War’s Final Battle Sites

by John Banks9/13/20227/20/2022

He’s Spent Decades Wandering Antietam — Here’s What He’s Found

by John Banks5/20/20225/20/2022

A Hike to Davis Ford, Where 22,000 Confederates Crossed the Duck River in 1864

by John Banks4/20/20224/20/2022

Samuel Jackson’s cartridge factory

Fighting the Enemy Was a Civil War Hazard. So Was Manufacturing Weapons.

by John Banks3/31/20223/31/2022

During the Civil War, Battlefield Dead Were Often Stripped of Anything of Value — Even Their Clothes

by John Banks2/10/20225/11/2022

No Man Left Behind: A Union Soldier Risked it All To Save Wounded Comrades

by John Banks2/1/20222/1/2022

This House & Barn Survived the Battle of South Mountain. Can It Survive Development?

by John Banks1/5/20221/3/2022

Can You Dig it? Archaeologists Take on Culp’s Hill

by John Banks10/20/20213/29/2022

It Was the Handsomest Country Residence in Tennessee — in 1874 it Burned to the Ground

by John Banks9/8/20213/29/2022