Illustrations, The Front Line Roanoke Island…150 Years Ago BY: Laura June DavisPosted: 2/8/12 Roanoke Island showing the position of Confederate Batteries Image Credit: Harper’s Weekly, March 1, 1862.
Cartoons The Blockade on the “Connecticut Plan” Good Morning! To celebrate the end of another long work week, we bring you a “Friday Funny.” Today’s Civil War era cartoon is an 1862 Currier & Ives sketch entitled,…
Battles Battlefield Echoes: MOPs, MOEs, and Chancellorsville Library of Congress Kurz & Allison’s depiction of the Battle of Chancellorsville In the aftermath of his army’s defeat at Gettysburg, General Robert E. Lee welcomed a brother of Secretary…
Illustrations Mustered Out…The U.S. Colored Troops “Mustered Out,” Little Rock, Arkansas, April 20, 1865 by Alfred R. Waud. Image Credit: Harper’s Weekly, May 19, 1866 courtesy of the Library of Congress.
Firsthand Accounts New Year’s Eve in Camp War Letters of William Thompson Lusk (1911) William Thompson Lusk, 79th New York Infantry On New Year’s Eve 1862, 24-year-old William Thompson Lusk, a captain in the 79th New York…
