Random Thoughts on History

  Photo courtesy of Wisteria Perry “Penetrating gunshot wound, ball entered three inches below right axilla, passed through thorax, lung per...

The Record of Murders and Outrages: Racial Violence and the Fight Over Truth at the Dawn of Reconstruction by William A. Blair The Ends of ...

Chancellorsville 1863: The Souls of the Brave by Ernest B. Furgurson "Too Much for Human Endurance:" The George Spangler Farm Hos...

The Carnage was Fearful: The Battle of Cedar Mountain, August 9, 1862 by Michael E. Block Extraordinary Circumstances: The Seven Days Battl...

In the Border States of Maryland, Delaware, Kentucky, and Missouri the process of emancipation and enlisting formerly enslaved men played ou...

Chancellorsville's Forgotten Front: The Battles of Second Fredericksburg and Salem Church, May 3, 1863 by Chris Mackowski and Kristophe...

Guest post courtesy of Joshua Lindamood and the Appomattox Petersburg Preservation Society Today, if you found yourself driving along the St...

While there are numerous challenges in making a move, there are advantages, too. A new area provides new opportunities to see and learn abou...

 Note XXV Corps badge on chest. Image courtesy of the Library of Congress.

We are fortunate that several United States Colored Troops (USCT) soldiers chose to write from their camps to newspapers who were supportive...

Invisible Wounds: Mental Illness and Civil War Soldiers by Dillon J. Carroll The Gentlemen and the Roughs: Violence, Honor, and Manhood in ...