Nick Smith
E.S. Frost spent his time in the Civil War in the 1st Maine Cavalry. He survived the bullets that flew around him at various major battles, but not the germs.…
John Ransom was an organized taker of notes as a young man. That got him his military assignment. At the age of twenty, he was acting Quartermaster Sergeant for a…
From “Children of the Battlefield” by James Gowdy Clark, 1864: Upon the field of Gettysburg The summer was high, When freedom met her haughty foe, Beneath a northern sky; Among…
The Woman’s Relief Corp, founded in the late 1870s in New England, quickly became a national organization, and eventually the official auxiliary to the Grand Army of the Republic. Unlike…
In May of 1865 in Charleston, South Carolina, the African American community decorated the graves of Union soldiers who had died while in a Confederate prisoner of war camp. In…
Reverend David J. Higgins was already in his forties by the time the Civil War began and was an established minister. He decided that it was his patriotic duty to…
The John F. Godfrey Post was far from the first Grand Army post formed in California. In fact, it was the ninety-third! Pasadena didn’t form a Post until a big…
Thomas Croft was an organized man. That served him well during his time in the Union Navy during the Civil War. He was an officer, and he served as paymaster…
The Enfield .577 caliber rifled musket was the second most common weapon used in the American Civil War, largely because it was used by both sides. It was a British-made…
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