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Like the tiny spark that ignites a raging fire, the inspiration that propels an author on a book-publishing journey can come from unexpected sources. For photo collector Bruce Bonfield, it
Recent Stories
Highly Honorable and Strictly Confidential Service
By Scott Valentine As Sgt. Smith Stimmel stood sentry at the front door of the White House on the evening of Feb. 10, 1864, a not too distant fire alarm
At Gettysburg, Life Imitates Art: A year before the “Children of the Battlefield” photo was taken from the body of Sgt. Amos Humiston, a similar drama unfolded in a poem
By Ronald S. Coddington One of the most poignant personal stories of the Battle of Gettysburg is the death of Union Sgt. Amos Humiston. Killed during the first day of
Conspicuous Cadet at New Market: The life and legacy of VMI’s Jonathan E. Woodbridge
By Katie O’Halloran Brown Late on the night of May 10, 1864, the cadets of Virginia Military Institute were called out of bed for orders that directed them to join
Immortality on Little Round Top, Butchery in Saunders Field
By Kevin D. Canberg Nearly surrounded and shot to pieces, the Rochester Racehorses stumbled back amid a smoldering mass of oak and vine that opened into a Virginia cornfield, through
Return and Retreat at Gettysburg: A Seminarian Is Called to Arms to Defend His College Town
By Paul Russinoff Few soldiers had ever heard of Gettysburg before the blue and gray armies clashed there in July 1863. For one Pennsylvanian however, the crossroads town was more
A Gallant Son of Orange Falls at Gettysburg
Nancy and George Hoover looked on helplessly as rebels traipsed through their modest Pennsylvania farm following the Battle of Gettysburg. The Confederates, disappointed yet still defiant, camped in the fields
Final Harvest: The Last Journey of a Confederate Lieutenant Wounded and Captured at Pickett’s Charge
By Charles T. Joyce Fields thick with golden wheat and oats blanketed the southeastern Pennsylvania countryside surrounding the hamlet of Fayetteville during the early summer of 1863. On June 28,
Gettysburg’s Honored Dead, Haunted Survivors
It was summer when they fell, dying in the searing heat and drenching humidity of an unforgiving early July—scattered amid fields of wheat, groves of peach trees, round-topped hills, and
The Value of Photo Inscriptions as an Identification Tool
By Kurt Luther The majority of subjects in Civil War photos are anonymous, because, naturally, as most were known to contemporaries, there was little need to record their identities. As