Union Soldiers Archives

To artist Edwin Forbes, William Jackson of the 12th New York was an everyman Union soldier, a “solemn lad… toughened by campaigning.” There was much more to Jackson’s story.

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The Poignant Tale Behind a Celebrated Civil War Sketch

These Hoosier Heroes at Gettysburg Were Among the Last Men Standing in the Civil War

A Union Rebel Inside Robert E. Lee’s Family

Can a Photograph Tell the Full Story of War’s Horror? This Antietam Ambrotype Just Might

Charging in the Dark, the Gallant Attack of These Gunners Led to the Breakthrough at Petersburg

With This Union Soldier’s Death the NYT Claimed That ‘some most interesting chapters of the unwritten and secret history of the War’ Had Died With Him

How Many Civil War Soldiers Were Underage? More Than You Think

At War’s End, These Union Soldiers Thought They Were Being Mustered Out. Instead, They Found Themselves Back in the Fray… Under Custer

Driven Mad By His Wife’s Passing, This Union Soldier Suffered an Ignoble Death