Howard Pyle’s "The Battle of Nashville" captures the harrowing advance of Minnesota soldiers through smoke and mud in a pivotal Civil War clash. If the Minnesota State Capitol were on fire ...

Some reflect the pageantry and pride imbued in uniforms or encouragement from the sound of a bugle. Others show how a loved one was cherished through a photograph. This section displays objects that ...

He finally died there in 1911—casualty of a war he’d volunteered to fight a half-century before. The Civil War killed ... a condition called “soldier’s heart” or “irritable heart ...

Courtesy: Library of Congress Whitman was forty-two years old when the Civil War started ... conceive of the mild and empathic poet as a soldier. "Could there be anything more shocking and ...

If you’ve ever seen a portrait of a Civil War soldier or the landscape of a battlefield just after the cannon-fire has been silenced, then you’re familiar with the work of Mathew Brady. Now meet the ...