For most of 1863 and 1864, the Army of the Cumberland drifted slowly back and forth, through Southeast Tennessee, Northwest Georgia, and Northeast Alabama. One expects the letters of this desperate war to be filled with battles, but they are not. The...

War is often pictured as a vast pageant, with the roar of cannon and bombs, with flying flags and bemedaled heroes, glorious victories and tragic defeats. But War is also a million personal stories, of quite ordinary men and women, caught up by forces...

“Sufferers’ Land.” The “Firelands.” These evocative and descriptive phrases refer to a region in Northern Ohio set aside by the state of Connecticut for “Sufferers” who were burned out of their homes by the British in the Revolution....

Little Doctor on the Black Horse is a story written by my grandmother, Harriott Benedict Wickham Barton about the experiences of her grandfather, David DeForest Benedict, a Union surgeon in the Civil War. David wrote many letters to his wife during...

The Fourth of July 1857 was a Saturday. From all over Erie and Huron counties, people gathered for the reunion, an assembly of the early settlers and their descendants. The residents of Norwalk had prepared a celebration for the day, to include a...