It was much more than your average diary. Willamette University professor William Gould, IV, spoke about the recently published diary of his great-grandfather at the Boston Museum of Afro-American ...

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 ...

“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 ...

The museum is presenting the special displays of the Rath diary in commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the start of the Civil War. In addition to the original diary, the Grout also has on ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — A Civil War diary kept by a onetime mayor of Nashville Randal McGavock has been returned to Tennessee 152 years after it was found by a Union captain when Fort Henry was captured ...

Bergeron also borrowed Sarah Morgan’s rocking chair from the Old State Capitol. Morgan was 20 years old when she began keeping a diary of the happenings in Baton Rouge during the Civil War. The ...

WARRENTON, Va. - Betty Jean Vera came clutching a sheaf of yellowing papers, rolled tight and wrapped with string, which she had found in a musty trunk in her attic. The author was a young Confederate ...

On more than one occasion, General Dwight D. Eisenhower perplexed younger officers by referring to a Dougherty wagon. Having joined the military in 1911, “Ike” was well acquainted with a type of wagon ...

Camp Randall is named after Alexander Randall, the sixth governor of Wisconsin. He is credited with organizing Union troops from Wisconsin to fight in the Civil War.

Minor, Charles L. C. (Charles Landon Carter), 1835-1903, Harmon, Edward P. cash book maintained by Confederate Captain Charles L. C. Minor from 1860 to 1864. Also contained within the cash book's ...