Books Worth Reading Again.; When a new book comes out I read an old one. -- Emerson. XVIII. Famous Adventures and Prison Escapes of the Civil War.* ...

Elizabeth Van Lew of Richmond, Va., was a Southern belle with Northern sympathies. She secretly aided the Union war effort.

Books: Civil Disobedience. 4 minute read. TIME. January 14, 1966 12:00 AM GMT-5. ... If the alternative is to keep all just men in prison, or give up war and slavery, ...

After one ROADSHOW guest named Chris got his Civil War letters appraised at the May 2022 Nashville ROADSHOW event, appraiser Tim Prince helped Chris find a permanent home for the letters in the ...

Another of the new generation of Civil War students, attorney W. Steven Harrell of Perry, Ga., has found pension records showing that Sheats himself, having been freed from prison, rushed to the ...

Every soldier fears dying in combat. But in the Civil War, being taken prisoner was nearly as life-threatening, with contagious illnesses spreading like wildfire in unsanitary prison camps. How ...

The American Civil War is a pivotal and ugly moment in American history, but it's more misunderstood than you would think. We're breaking down some myths about Lincoln, women soldiers, racist ...

Its vivid scenes illuminate the prison’s overcrowding and deprivation during the Civil War. Almost 13,000 of its prisoners died from malnutrition, diseases and other causes.

As the sesquicentennial of the Civil War unfolds, there's no better place to be than Virginia. The commonwealth was in the middle of the war, and now it's in the middle of the anniversary ...

Larry Eggleston of Wanatah spends his retirement days visiting Civil War battlefield sites and libraries and other historical archives conducting research for books. His "Women in the Civil War ...