Rare Profile Portrait of the Confederacy’s First General
By John O’Brien When the fledgling Confederate government formally announced the officers appointed general in the regular army, one name topped the list. It was not Bobby Lee or Joe
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Reminiscences of an Exiled Marylander: The life and services of McHenry Howard
By Evan Phifer As the Army of Northern Virginia threatened Union soil in September 1862, two federal soldiers appeared on the doorstep of Elizabeth Phoebe Key Howard’s home in Baltimore.
Held Hostage in Virginia: A Union Captain Becomes a Casualty in a Battle of Wits Between Jefferson Davis and John Pope
By Scott Valentine Union Capt. Samuel Miller Quincy realized that something had gone horribly wrong during the early part of the Battle of Cedar Mountain on Aug. 9, 1862. The
Union Wives and Their Generals
By Tom Glass Nearly all the generals who served the North during the Civil War were married. Left behind at home, their wives cared for families, farms, businesses and relatives.
Early Photo Sleuths In the Dead Letter Office
By Kurt Luther Not long ago, I received a gift of a carte de visite of an unidentified Civil War soldier, probably a Union private, wearing a short jacket and
Lexington, Not Petersburg: A cancelled revenue stamp on the back of an iconic image of Gen. Robert E. Lee and Traveller suggests a new location—and brings to light the photographers who took it
By John O’Brien Of all the photographs of Robert E. Lee, one stands out as favored above the rest: the gray-coated general seated on his faithful mount, Traveller. According