The preoccupations and sentiments of a common soldier caught in the most traumatic conflict in American history Private Silas W. Haven, a native New Englander transplanted to Iowa, enlisted in 1862 to
The chronicle of a Union soldier’s seven months in captivity Besides the risks of death or wounding in combat, the average Civil War soldier faced the constant threat of being captured by the enemy. I
Reassesses the election of 1860 through an interdisciplinary lens, interpreting the events surrounding the election and analyzing the candidates from biographical perspectives to explain the campaign'
One of the most colorful, controversial, and misunderstood public figures of the 19th century“The most hated man in New England,”as critics dubbed him on the eve of the Civil War, Caleb Cushing, brash
