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 papers include an original Civil War discharge paper dated from 1865, a muster roll and battle records. "I was unprepared for how moving it is," Loftis said. "This soldier was in Gettsyburg.

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 ...