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 ...

"I have his discharge papers," Scott said proudly ... The Woodland monument is the fourth memorializing Civil War veterans. It's a large, old-style granite monument nearly 5 feet tall engraved ...

His service record states he was from “White-hall (Hottenstein spelled it with a hyphen in his enlistment papers ... 3, 1865, Hottenstein was mustered out of the 107th. The Civil War was ...

Research by assistant professor of history Abigail Cooper into the refugee camps set up for African Americans during the Civil War has revealed stories ... of a white Union sympathizer. When the war ...

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 ...