Some 160 years after it was taken, that image would send the author on a quest to learn all he could about these “Jersey Boys.”
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Love Civil War Research? Thank These Union Veterans and Their Books
Two Union veterans compiled research volumes that remain invaluable to students of the conflict
This Union Veterans’ Post Was Shut for 50 Years. Turns Out, It’s an Amazing Repository of Civil War Stories.
Veteran “war sketches” offer a unique glimpse of soldier experience during and after the conflict.
No Man Left Behind: A Union Soldier Risked it All To Save Wounded Comrades
“The daring of this man,” Captain Frank Donaldson later wrote about Lemuel Crocker’s Shepherdstown heroism, “is without precedent”
He Was a New Union Lieutenant at Shiloh. The Horrors He Witnessed Left Scars That Never Healed.
A young Union lieutenant and his fellow Ohioans learn the horrors of war on Shiloh’s opening day
When His Sister Came to Vietnam, This Door Gunner Left the Central Highlands For a Rare Family Reunion
Michael Kelley of the 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile) had a brief respite from combat duty visiting his sister at Nha Trang near the South China Sea.
How Union General Robert H. Milroy Spent His Life Trying Redeem His Reputation
Until his death, Union General Robert H. Milroy never stopped trying to redeem his reputation, badly scarred in defeat at Second Winchester.
How Union Leaders Sought to Exploit Rebel In-Fighting After the Fall of Atlanta
Lincoln, Sherman hoped to leverage government unrest in Richmond and Georgia to secure an early peace deal after Atlanta fell
In His Words: The Exceptional Life of Union Engineer Gilbert Thompson
Union Engineer Gilbert Thompson documented his service with an illustrated diary
How the Union Capture of Brown’s Ferry Changed the War in the West
Grant adopted an ambitious plan to reduce by half the 60 miles of treacherous, rain-gutted roads from the Union supply center at Bridgeport, Ala., to Chattanooga by establishing a new route