Author William Styple talked about the childhood of artist James Kelly, who would go on to interview dozens of Union Civil War generals after the war to understand their war and depict it in art. The ...
Grant Public domain via Wikimedia Commons As Union General Ulysses S ... responded to an unsettling economic reality: Despite the war raging around them, Southern planters still wanted to sell ...
The Civil War had begun ... Some did, but the vast majority crossed Union lines as soon as Northern troops entered their vicinity. A Confederate general stated in 1862 that North Carolina was ...
In the winter of 1846, general anesthesia using ... At Mercy Street’s Mansion House Union Hospital major surgical procedures of the Civil War are performed. Amputations are emphasized, as ...