Nelly McClellan, America’s Flora McFlimsey
By Elizabeth A. Topping Ellen Mary Marcy McClellan remained an ardent supporter of her husband, Maj. Gen. George Brinton McClellan, throughout his military career. Though “Nelly” had rejected his marriage
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Gettysburg: Echoes of Three Days in July 1863
Curated by Charles Joyce, with contributions from Rick Brown, Scott Hann, Robert May, Dale Niesen, Paul Russinoff, and Melissa Winn July 1 Amputation at the Express Office The first Union
Dynamite Man: The life and times of Hoosier soldier, sailor, and inventor James Weir Graydon
By Ronald S. Coddington The heavens came alive for visitors to the nation’s Naval Observatory in Washington, D.C., on a crisp, clear winter’s night in 1877. A party of ladies
Wounded Three Times in Battle— and Once by a Guerrilla
By Scott Valentine Poinsett Cooper seemed destined to find his calling in the military. His father, Benjamin, served as a midshipman in the U.S. Navy during the War of 1812
The Last Confederate Veteran
By Ronald S. Coddington In the autumn of 1864, with the war in its desperate final stages, a 17-year-old Alabama farm boy accompanied a neighbor returning to his regiment along
Cruising the Potomac and Elsewhere with Brig. Gen. John P. Slough’s Brigade Band
By Ronald S. Coddington, with images from the Mark Jones Collection On an April day in 1864, in a field near Alexandria, Va., thousands of soldiers and civilians gathered to