FRANKLIN – The long-lost diary of prominent Nashville historical figure and Civil War officer Randal William McGavock is now back in Tennessee after decades spent on a closet shelf in a Cincinnati ...

WASHINGTON (AP) – Letters and diaries from those who lived through the Civil War offer a new glimpse at the arguments that split the nation 150 years ago and some of the festering debates that survive ...

“It’s a handwritten eyewitness account of Lincoln’s assassination,” Susan Urban explained to DuMouchelle’s appraiser James Flannery about the small journal she brought with her to a recent appraisal ...

SHERIDAN — On Jan. 16, 1865, John Prentice, a soldier in the Union Army in the American Civil War, participated in a battalion drill in Savannah, Georgia. In the three years prior, he’d witnessed and ...

Jonathan W. White was in California on another book project when he happened across the diaries of George Buswell. In the online catalog it said Buswell had served in Memphis, which he was researching ...

From battlefield letters to detailed maps and Freedmen’s Bureau records, Civil War archives reveal the human experiences and societal shifts often missing from textbooks. These primary sources capture ...

If pianist Bill Carrothers hadn't found his way to music, he might have been a historian. Fortunately, Carrothers has found a unique way to combine both interests. Armistice 1918 (Sketch, 2004) was a ...

Vincent Venturini's "Blackened Chimneys" details the life of Arabelle Daniel in Jackson, Mississippi during the Civil War, primarily focusing on the spring and summer of 1863. The book draws heavily ...

STARKVILLE, Miss. (AP) — The Civil War diaries of a Union officer and letters by a Union soldier can now be read on a Mississippi State University website. The university said in a statement that the ...

This is an intimate look into the Civil War as told by a Confederate Soldier who recorded his thoughts and feelings on paper. Understand the Civil War like never before as you see and hear events ...

For the fully digitized diaries see negative numbers SIA2013-02704 through SIA2013-02816 (Diary 1858-1863) and negative numbers SIA2013-01937 through SIA2013-02126 (Diary 1864-1868). These diary ...

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Washington and Lee University has acquired a six-volume set of diaries chronicling the battlefield experiences and insights of a Virginia man who left the college to fight for the ...