Preparing to See the Elephant

Preparing the Negro Soldiers to Use the Minie Rifle

Image Credit: Harper’s Weekly, March 14, 1863.

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Voice from the Past: Dressed All the Wards with Festoons and Garlands

Happy Holidays! Today’s Voice from the Past is from the December 1861 diary of Eliza Newton Woolsey Howland. We had taken some goodies and little traps with us for the…