The problem: Pro-slavery states had broken ... the Union Army. One solution: Balloons. Yes, balloons. And bizarrely, it was tried and kind of worked. Back in the American Civil War, the American ...

53–54, 56. Metz’s book contains several factual errors about the 125th USCI and omits Knapp’s name from the list of post commanders. Gerhart obituary; Duncan, Census, 1880 for San Francisco, and ...

Photograph showing Union soldiers with rifles at attention in front of the Capitol. May 13, 1861. Courtesy: Library of Congress Whitman was forty-two years old when the Civil War started.

Freeman’s book Field of Blood: Violence in Congress and the Road to Civil War (Farrar ... I shall do anything for the Union. I like everyone. Everyone likes me," to "I better carry a gun ...

(p. 233) Readers will find that The Civil War in the Age of Nationalism offers a convincing look at how the Civil War was related to broader global movements. A useful book for the serious student of ...

Pillow, Tennessee on April 12, 1864 100,000+ — Number of Civil War Union corpses found in the South through a federal reinterment program from 1866-1869 303,356 — Number of Union soldiers who ...