John Tomney arrived in New York after the war began but did not speak English. When he was captured by Confederate troops in ...

But he feared the Civil War would shatter his beloved nation ... on a list of wounded soldiers in the newspapers in December 1862, Walt hurried south to find his brother. Whitman was relieved ...

It was sad to think of all he’d been through in his life, and he didn’t even have a headstone,” said Kendall Peruzzini, 13.

The Civil War had begun. Immediately following the attack ... not to free slaves. But by 1862, Lincoln was considering emancipation as a necessary step toward winning the war.

Investopedia contributors come from a range of backgrounds, and over 25 years there have been thousands of expert writers and editors who have contributed. Janet Berry-Johnson is a CPA with 10 ...

Lincoln’s assassination, and the ineffectual leadership of his successor, Andrew Johnson, enabled the Congress to control ...

Choo" may have made the city famous, but historians will tell you a 19th century locomotive called "The General" is a more ...

American Civil War soldier Daniel Walterhouse was wounded in 1862 when he was stabbed with a sword in a battle. He then spent ...

Shiloh National Military Park in Tennessee was the site of a bloody Civil War battle to control the Confederate Railroads. Shiloh National Military Park encompasses much of the April 1862 Civil ...

Before the Civil War, the Craik-Patton house was owned by George Patton ... After he recovered from his wounds, he returned to the fighting but was wounded again in May of 1862. His luck ran out, ...

Dr. Chris Mackowski, professor of Journalism and Mass Communication and associate dean of undergraduate programs in the Jandoli School, has an article in the 2025 edition of the Journal of the ...