Sergeant MacNulty and the Stereophan
Sergeant William Augustus MacNulty, a native of Maine who served in Company A of the 10th New York Infantry, suffered a devastating wound at the Battle of Fredericksburg. A Massachusetts
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Leading From the Front
The Battle of Piedmont, fought in the Shenandoah Valley on June 5, 1864, is noted for the death of Confederate commander William E. “Grumble” Jones and the rout of his
The Gift of a Portrait From a Teenaged Daughter to a Soldier-Father
Less than a week before Christmas 1863, Martha Naomi Wilcox inscribed a photograph to her father away at war. The careful, halting cursive script belied her 14 years. Martha’s father,
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By Perry M. Frohne This headline represents the total made by one individual selling fake CDVs, in the first four months of this year. By my count, there were 74
Three Confederate Prisoners at Gettysburg: Exploring the vast void of an iconic photograph
By Paul Bolcik Few war photographs rise to the level of iconic. This singular image created by Mathew Brady’s team of photographers in the aftermath of the Battle of Gettysburg
A Place of Pilgrimage for the Nation: A photographic tour through Gettysburg’s Soldiers’ National Cemetery
By Charles T. Joyce, with images and artifacts from the author’s collection A decade after the guns fell silent at Gettysburg, the battlefield’s first comprehensive tourist guide appeared in print:
The Soldiers’ National Cemetery at Gettysburg Is Conceived
By Charles T. Joyce David Wills’ work with other state agents dispatched to Gettysburg by their governors to deal with their own dead convinced the young attorney that a less
“Humanity Calls On Us” : Pressing Problem With the Initial Burials at Gettysburg
By Charles T. Joyce Immediately after issuing a congratulatory message to his victorious army on Independence Day 1863, Maj. Gen. George G. Meade sent a circular to his corps commanders,
A Retired Photographer and Free Man of Color Join Forces to Disinter the Dead at Gettysburg’s Soldiers’ National Cemetery
By Charles T. Joyce David Wills orchestrated the logistics of disinterment and reburial. He solicited bids for the former and received 34 responses, choosing the low bid of $1.59 per
Relics From the Raising of the Flag at Sumter, 1865: Major Robert Anderson’s emotional return four years after he surrendered his garrison
By Ronald S. Coddington, featuring an artifact from the Glen Hayes Collection The Fort Sumter story encompasses two unique moments in time. On April 12, 1861, the bombardment of the