TAG: Civil War
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Around the World May/June 2023
PENNSYLVANIA
(Courtesy of the U.S. Army) -
Digs & Discoveries July/August 2022
A Civil War Bomb
(Cobb County Police) -
Features May/June 2020
A Path to Freedom
At a Union Army camp in Kentucky, enslaved men, women, and children struggled for their lives and fought to be free
(National Archives Records Administration, Washington, DC) -
Around the World January/February 2020
SOUTH CAROLINA
(Courtesy Friends of the Hunley) -
Digs & Discoveries July/August 2019
Cotton Mill, Prison, Main Street
(Illustration: Otto Botticher, Union Prisoners at Salisbury, N, C., 1863. Courtesy of Reynolda House Museum of American Art, Affiliated with Wake Forest University) -
Digs & Discoveries September/October 2018
Do No Harm
(NPS Photo/Nathan King) -
Letter from Virginia July/August 2015
Free Before Emancipation
Excavations are providing a new look at some of the Civil War’s earliest fugitive slaves—considered war goods or contraband—and their first taste of liberty
(Library of Congress) -
Digs & Discoveries July/August 2014
A Bold Civil War Steamer
(Courtesy New York Public Library) -
Features November/December 2013
Life on the Inside
Open for only six weeks toward the end of the Civil War, Camp Lawton preserves a record of wartime prison life
(Virginia Historical Society, Mss5.1.Sn237.1v.6p.139)