Artifacts

Published: 3/7/20

Robert E. Lee and Traveller Tintype

By: The Civil War Monitor

Category: Artifacts

A tintype of Robert E. Lee and Traveller may be "the last original photograph of Lee in private hands." Learn how much it earned at auction.

Published: 12/1/19

Yankee Ingenuity

By: The Civil War Monitor

Category: Artifacts

When Albert Walker was transferred out of the Andersonville prison camp, he left with a wooden pipe carved for him by a fellow captive.

Published: 12/1/19

Colonel Emory Upton’s VI Corps Brigade Flag

By: The Civil War Monitor

Category: Artifacts

Colonel Emory Upton’s VI Corps brigade flag was first carried into combat in the spring of 1864. See what it earned at auction.

Published: 11/26/12

“Not Since the Days of William the Conqueror” – Anti-War Democrats of Ohio in their Own Words

By: James Schmidt

Category: Artifacts

For me, one of the great joys of researching and writing about Civil War history is “reading other people’s mail.” Whether in archives, digitized sources online, or in books, reading...