Women presenting as men — whether to escape the stifling construct of feminine life or to stay close to husbands or brothers ...

Henry Clay Robinett was commissioned in the Regular Army in August of 1861, and served through the Civil ... after the war - the result of complex psychological problems that are carefully discussed ...

(DC News Now) — Some of the most famous Civil War photographs were taken right on the Antietam Battlefield ... “Pictures we ...

regularly attended lectures and seminars on the Civil War and read piles of books, memoirs and contemporaneous newspaper accounts of the three-day battle. He armed himself with a coffee-table-book ...

GETTYSBURG — A rare memoir of a Civil War veteran from Mooresburg ... based on the information it contains, into a book, “Four Years in the War: A Memoir by Michael Thornton.” ...

The American Civil War was the first major conflict ... from snapping even the most graphic of post-battle images to illustrate the horrors of war. Several of the images in this gallery are ...

It was filmmaker Ken Burns who said, “The Civil War was fought in 10,000 places. From Valverde, New Mexico, and Tullahoma, Tennessee, to St. Albans, Vermont, and Fernandina on the Florida coast.

At the time of the Civil War, camera shutters were too slow to record ... could neither maneuver the rough terrain nor record images in the midst of battle. So newspaper publishers hired amateur ...

And walk through Gettysburg Battlefield, gaining insight into why it's considered the most important engagement of the American Civil War. Gain valuable insights from local historians and licensed ...