Illustrations, The Front Line The Drummer Boy of Our Regiment BY: The Civil War MonitorPosted: 12/19/19 The December 19, 1863, edition of Harper’s Weekly contained the following full-page illustration that highlighted a variety of scenes associated with the service of a Union drummer boy, some of whom were as young as 10 years old.
Gettysburg A Brilliant “Boy Major” The Gettysburg story of young Confederate artillery officer Joseph White Latimer, known as the “Boy Major.”
Firsthand Accounts A Spy’s Demise In 1865, the United States Sanitary Commission, a private relief agency that supported sick and wounded soldiers during the Civil War, published a volume of Union soldiers’ writings titled Soldiers’…
Soldiers Oh Lord, Where Art Thou? Civil War Guards, Prisoners, and Punishments A prison register was a seemingly strange place to write the Our Father. Nonetheless, one guard from the 128th Ohio Volunteer Infantry, charged with guarding Johnson’s Island Prison, scribbled the…
The Front Line The Best Civil War Novels Library of Congress No event in American history has inspired more imaginative writing than the Civil War. Authors have made the struggle the subject of thousands of rhymes, songs, poems,…