Union soldiers loved to play tricks on their officers, particularly the uptight ones. On January 6, 1862, Adjutant Lewis Clark Parmelee of...

Colonel James Miller was the first commander of the 81 st Pennsylvania, a regiment drawn from the Irish neighborhoods of Philadelphia a...

On June 27, 1862, Confederate forces assaulted the Union line at Gaines’s Mill, Virginia. The Army of the Potomac suffered 6,800 losses ...

Julian Scott, Union Vanguard (1889) This image is called “Union Vanguard.” A veteran, Julian Scott (one of my favorite Civil War ...

How many of you know the Civil War tale of Henry Smith, the Razor Strop Man? I was quite ignorant of it until a friend of mine turned me...

I’ve selected my first post carefully. It is a reflection written by Corporal George G. Walters, a member of Company K, 148 th Pennsylv...