666 days of diary entries documenting the life of a Union officer held in Confederate prisons Captured on October 11, 1863, James Riley Weaver, a Union cavalry officer, spent nearly seventeen months i
An intimate look into the daily life of a cavalry officer serving with the Army of the Potomac In May 1863, eighteen-year-old William Brooke Rawle graduated from the University of Pennsylvania and tra
A study of Grant’s and Lee’s battles in the weeks before the 1864 election In the fall of 1864, the Civil War’s outcome rested largely on Abraham Lincoln’s success in the upcoming presidential electio
