Medicine on the battlefield has always been inspired by urgency and improvisation, and the American Civil War highlights just how much human courage contributed to advancements.

""To glance at a Civil War paper is to be transported to a different era from the one in which we live today,"" writes Coopersmith in his introduction to this rich analysis of Civil War reporting. Yet ...

Weapons of mass destruction during the Civil War will be discussed at a special meeting of the Civil War Round Table of the Mid-Ohio Valley at 7 p.m. March 12 at the Knights of Columbus, 312 Franklin ...

ABSTRACT: This paper discusses the issues of free speech in the Civil War North by examination of partisan newspapers and other popular accounts in order to understand the popular constitutional ...

Civil War reenactors will return to Morris Island on July 18 to remember the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Regiment’s three-month assault on Fort Wagner that proved 159 years ago Black men had ...

They spent the next four years studying the paper’s content, which often presented a wildly subjective view of the war and provides the grist for their new history, “The Atlanta Daily Intelligencer ...

Holding a letter written by a soldier during the Civil War is a thrill for me. I recently purchased one written by a young Virginia soldier whose graceful penmanship filled the lined rag paper from ...

Officials at a small Civil War museum made an intriguing discovery while sifting through items in storage: A document long treated as a photo reproduction of the terms of Gen. Robert E. Lee's ...