The Making of Mill Springs Battlefield
Once identified as one of the 25 most endangered battlefields in America, Mill Springs Battlefield is one of the American Battlefield Trust’s major...
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On the Banks and Along Streams: Battlefield Preservation’s Positive Impact on Water Sources
As the main substance that supports life on earth, water has greatly benefitted from efforts to preserve America’s hallowed ground.
The Bivouac of the Dead
Tasked with reburying the dead in the southern states, U.S. Army officer Edmund Burke Whitman literally mapped out the plan for this massive...
The Soldiers' National Cemetery at Gettysburg
The Battle of Gettysburg transformed the lush fields and bustling streets of the Pennsylvania town into a bloodstained hellscape in only three days...
Spy Executions During the American Civil War
During the American Civil War, both the Union and the Confederate governments relied on espionage during wartime. Both citizens and soldiers...
The Daily Citizen of Vicksburg
Vicksburg, Mississippi, had three newspapers in the antebellum era to keep its citizens informed of national and local events. The Vicksburg Whig, the...
The New York Tribune in the Civil War
Founded by Northern publisher and political firebrand Horace Greeley in 1841, the New York Tribune originally bore the name New York Daily Tribune...
Appomattox Parole Pass
Appomattox Court House, Va., THE BEARER,_______________________ of Co.____________ Regt.___ 0f________, a paroled Prisoner of the Army of Northern...
The Charleston Mercury
This 19th Century newspaper started in 1823 under the name the Charleston Mercury and Morning Advertiser. Two years later, Henry L. Pinckney purchased...
Lincoln's Reconstruction: An Unfulfilled Vision of the Union
In 1861, as the Union wavered on the edge of collapse, Abraham Lincoln took office, marking the beginning of an undertaking that would test the fabric...
The Massachusetts Historical Society
One of the finest collection of historical documents and artifacts in the United States.