Hoosiers: Indiana Faces of the Civil War
Whether posed in a studio at Indianapolis, Terre Haute, Fort Wayne, or in the field, the Hoosier soldiers who look out from these portraits represent the citizens who left farms,
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A Memorial by Soldiers for Their Fallen Comrades
On April 24, 1863, during an evening dress parade in the camp of the 58th Indiana Infantry near Murfreesboro, Tenn., Lt. Col. James T. Embree made an offer: “To raise
Sylvester’s War: The journey of an Indiana volunteer from Tippecanoe County to Tennessee
By Ronald S. Coddington Corporal Sylvester Leaming drifted in and out of consciousness from his hospital bed in Nashville on a June day in 1864. Wasting away from disease and
Wed by the “Famous Fighting Methodist Preacher”
One spring day in 1864, John W. Widney and Mary A. Fitzwater Brown were married in Orange, Ohio. The newlyweds were accompanied by John’s mother, Eliza, and Mary’s brother, John.
At Stones River, A Sword Lost and Found
By Ronald S. Coddington In the maelstrom of fighting at Stones River on the last day of 1862, dense clouds of gun smoke hung like a pall over the bloody