Q&A with Cara Arnold: Connecting Through Images
By Deena C. Bouknight On Steinwehr Avenue in Gettysburg, Pa., near the Gettysburg National Cemetery – which is on the edge of the vast battlefield – is an iconic shop
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“‘Died at Gettysburg!’ No Prouder Epitaph Need Any Man Covet.”: The Tragedy of Capt. Richard Wistar Davids of the 118th Pennsylvania Infantry
By Charles T. Joyce Visitors to the Gettysburg National Military Park encounter stone sentinels of all shapes and sizes. One of them, an austere granite marker on the north side
Union Soldiers from Wisconsin, Connecticut and Elsewhere
The pressing need for volunteers to fill the depleted ranks of the Union army had not waned by the summer of 1864. In Milwaukee, recruiters organized Wisconsin’s 43rd infantry regiment