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
Tag: Pickett’s Charge
“Very Affectionately Yours for Our Country”: Assistant Surgeon Nathaniel B. Colman of the 17th Maine Infantry
By Jack Hurov, with an image and artifacts from the Author’s collection Late in the afternoon on July 2, 1863, at Gettysburg, Nathaniel Bryant Colman of the 17th Maine Infantry
Gettysburg Album: Portraits of Union and Confederate soldiers in the Gettysburg Campaign
So Close, So Far The roughly 400-strong 11th Mississippi Infantry participated in Pickett’s Charge. The assault cost the regiment about half its number. Among the survivors was Pvt. John F.
Escape after Spotsylvania
Edmund Rice is a familiar figure to many students of the Civil War. A Massachusetts surveyor at the beginning of hostilities, he worked his way up from captain to brigadier
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,
Reluctant Hero: Otis C. Billings and Cowan’s 1st New York Independent Battery at Gettysburg
By Charles Joyce On the humid afternoon of July 3, 1863, a Union battery left its caissons behind and rumbled forward under a brisk rebel artillery fire. The fast-moving gunners