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...
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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One of the finest collection of historical documents and artifacts in the United States.
"Through Storm and Sunshine": Valorous Vivandières in the Civil War
More than canteen carriers, these “daughters of the regiment” braved the chaos of war to tend to soldiers on and off the battlefield. Learn about...
From Snowballs to Cannonballs
Grab your snow shovels, bundle up, and man the ramparts of your impromptu winter quarters for this edition of Nature of History on the influence of...
Forgotten Monitor: The Story of the USS Tecumseh
By the spring of 1864, Rear Admiral David G. Farragut had developed a case of “Monitor Fever.” Since early in the war, when he was named to command...
Forgotten Monitor: The Story of the USS Tecumseh
Looking north from the beach at Mobile Point, Alabama, a handful of oil platforms clutter the inside of Mobile Bay, a few miles offshore. To the south...
Gunfight on the Water
By January 1865, Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant’s armies in Virginia had a choke hold on the Confederate railroad center at Petersburg and the capital city...