On July 1, 1862, well into the second year of the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln signed the Pacific Railroad Act of 1862. While amid a country...
Nestled along the river plain forty-three miles above Cincinnati sits the idyllic Ohio River town of Augusta, Kentucky. On the afternoon of September...
As Prince Rivers stood on a freshly constructed platform in the shade of moss-covered live oak trees at Camp Saxton, he looked down upon the faces of...
Few places saw fighting that was as prolonged and deadly as it was at Culp’s Hill during the battle of Gettysburg. Witnessing fighting on both July 2...
In an age before modern medicine, getting sick from disease was a scary but normal part of life. There were several common illnesses that were found...
Ceo Bauer is part of a shrinking subset of the American Battlefield Trust’s membership, soldiers of the Greatest Generation who fought in World War II...
Violence once again shattered the forests west of the Appalachian Mountains in the spring of 1763. The peace brought on by the end of the French and...