This week, we share the story of a Civil War discharge certificate belonging to Pvt ... 1863 and mustered out on October 31, 1865. Adams was one of 10,940 African-Americans to enlist in the Union Army ...

The Chester County Times is one of more than 30 newspapers spotlighted in “Blood and Ink: Front Pages From the Civil War” at the Newseum ... On April 15, 1865, the Evening Express in ...

Looking back on the Civil War in his 1882 “Specimen Days & Collect,” Walt Whitman reflected that “the real war will never get in the books.” He had tried, in “Drum-Taps” (1865), a ...