Others show how a loved one was cherished through a photograph. This section displays objects that helped the soldier get through the atrocities of war—objects that have helped generations since in ...

The soldiers were young and inexperienced, most in their teens or early twenties. In the North, they were farmers and factory ...

They objected to life-threatening labor in the ranks following years ... The Emancipation of Black Soldiers in Civil War ...

On November 27, 1863, Union Private Robert Knox Sneden was captured by soldiers under ... visual record of life during the Civil War.” Sneden depicts the layout of Camp Lawton and its ...

I don't ever recall anything about Civil War and African American soldiers ... to their still-enslaved families. Camp Nelson presents an entirely new way of life for the recruits.