Schuylkill County can certainly be proud of coming to the defense of the Union during the Civil War. Two Pottsville militia ...

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As bedraggled Union troops retreated to their camp along the James River in Virginia in early July 1862, they endured a march that stretched more than 12 miles. Eager to lighten their load in harsh ...

You’re going to find out that walking into the Horse Soldier Gettysburg feels less like entering a shop and more like ...

Ten months into the Civil War, the Union was short on a crucial supply, the absence of which threatened to sap the fighting strength of the Northern army: coffee. This critical source of energy and ...

Outside her day-job as Public Information Officer for Martin County Schools, Sarah Stalls has a love for local history.

Headq'rs Army Northern Virginia. Camp near Winchester, Va., Oct. 8, 1862. Maj.-Gen. J. E. B. Stuart, Commanding Cavalry &c.; … An expedition into Maryland with a ...

The Battle of Fort Donelson on the Cumberland River near Dover, Tenn., marks the first major Union battlefield victory of the Civil War, 150 years ago this week in 1862. Federal gunboats on Feb. 14, ...

Lincoln Visits the Confederate Wounded at Sharpsburg.--The Washington correspondent of the Cincinnati Commercial, who was with Lincoln in his late visit to the army on the Upper Potomac, relates the ...