Personalities

John Wilkes Booth’s Nephew, Edwin Booth Clarke: The Ghost Child, 1861-1881

by ECW Guest Post

Posted on June 29, 2026

Fr. Richard Christy – The Fighting Chaplain of the Army of the Cumberland

by Evan Portman

Posted on June 22, 2026

Carl Schurz: The Quintessential German American?

by Evan Portman

Posted on May 25, 2026

Superb Spuds: The Friendship of Winfield S. Hancock and Henry Heth

by ECW Guest Post

Posted on May 20, 2026

May 2026 CVBT History Wire – It Becomes My Painful Duty to Inform You: Condolence Letters & Obituaries from Civil War Soldiers in Central Virginia – Part II

by Tim Talbott

Posted on May 16, 2026

Nathaniel Hawthorne Goes to War

by ECW Guest Post

Posted on May 14, 2026

“A Colony for Incurables”: Surgeon Sylvester Willard & His Insane Asylum

by Madeline Feierstein

Posted on May 11, 2026

John Lott – “The first colored man that shouldered a musket in the Union Army”

by M. A. Kleen

Posted on May 6, 2026

“It Killed Him Instantly”: The Death of Pvt. Jerry Finch at Chancellorsville

by Tim Talbott

Posted on May 1, 2026