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These objects belonged to the men and boys who fought on the front lines for both Confederate and Union forces. They represent what soldiers wore, what they ate, how they coped, and what they held ...
Confederate soldiers, huddled over their campfires in the predawn light, had to make do with unpalatable coffee substitutes brewed from acorn grounds, sweet potatoes and other dubious ingredients.
Records show city officials in 2023 spent $16,000 to upgrade a Confederate marker, located on Wise Street in Manchester, that ...
As a Confederate soldier, he fought for the Southern pro-slavery states who wanted to break away from the Union. The conflict prompted Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation in 1863 ...
He fancied himself a modern Robin Hood ... The Legend Begins Aided by an ex-Confederate soldier and newspaper editor named John Newman Edwards, Jesse began constructing a myth of himself as ...