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John Pelham’s Opponents at Fredericksburg

by Sarah Kay Bierle

Posted on November 17, 2025

Martha Pelham’s Letter: Finding Colorful Details for John Pelham’s 1858 Summer

by Sarah Kay Bierle

Posted on June 18, 2025

Book Review: The Civil War Letters of Sarah Kennedy: Life Under Occupation in the Upper South

by Sarah Kay Bierle

Posted on March 14, 2024

“Your love will carry me safely through”: War, Hope, and Reasons to Live

by Sarah Kay Bierle

Posted on February 14, 2024

A Letter from Denver

by Derek Maxfield

Posted on January 19, 2024

1863: Wash Roebling’s Gettysburg Letter

by Cecily Nelson Zander

Posted on August 2, 2023

July 4, 1863: “This Most Eventful Day to the American People”

by Sarah Kay Bierle

Posted on July 4, 2023

Blood and Buttons: Charles Anderson at Stones River (Part Two of Two)

by David T. Dixon

Posted on March 13, 2023

Blood and Buttons: Charles Anderson at Stones River (Part One of Two)

by David T. Dixon

Posted on March 13, 2023