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:
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
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,
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
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
By George S. Whiteley IV I’ve had a keen interest in military images from the very beginning of my antique photograph collecting pursuit nearly half a century ago. Sometimes a
By Marcy E. Zimmer Sometimes a face reveals a hidden story. At first glance, this portrait of an older gentleman and his wife leaves an impression of a simple and
By Rick Brown and Ronald S. Coddington You never know what will turn up in an abandoned storage unit. In a June 2022 auction, Josh O’Keefe placed the winning bid
Confederate military history is deeply rooted in the fertile soil and rolling hills of Kentucky’s Bluegrass region. John Hunt Morgan and Basil Duke are buried here, and it is where
By Mark Savolis and Ronald S. Coddington, featuring images from Mark’s collection At Fredericksburg, a wave of Massachusetts volunteers charged towards Confederates entrenched along a stone wall on the crest
