The 48th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry

Mysteries and Conundrums , maintained largely by the staff at Fredericksburg & Spotsylvania National Military Park, is one of the very b...

The Logan Guards was a militia company founded in 1858 in Lewistown, the seat of Mifflin County in central Pennsylvania. A public meeting he...

We conclude today with the final two months' entries of Valentine Stichter, a First Defender serving in the Washington Artillerists, of ...

Post-War View of First Defender Val Stichter of the Washington Artillerists * * * * * * * * * * * * * Valentine Stichter was twenty-seven y...

As mentioned in my previous post on the National Light Infantry, up until the Civil War's Sesquicentennial hits in mid-April, I am going...

Throughout the four years of the American Civil War, more than two million soldiers served in Union blue, some for a few weeks, others for t...