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.
The Front Line The Women in Black Last fall, J. David Hacker revealed that the number of Civil War dead is closer to 750,000 than the previously accepted number of 618,222. While not all of them were…
Civilians The Wound Dresser During the Civil War, renowned poet Walt Whitman served as a nurse. His battlefield medical career began at Fredericksburg, where he tended to wounded soldiers—including his brother. Deeply moved by…
Firsthand Accounts 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…
The Front Line A Civil War Era Royal Wedding Much like the Anglophiles of today, Civil War-era Americans were fascinated by the British royal family. Rather than obsessing over William, Kate, and Harry, nineteenth century Americans celebrated the marriage…
