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 ...

Women presenting as men — whether to escape the stifling construct of feminine life or to stay close to husbands or brothers ...

One of the major accomplishments during the Civil ... as City Point. By war’s end, there were 204 Union general hospitals with 136,894 beds. During the war, over one million soldiers received ...

Pillow, Tennessee on April 12, 1864 100,000+ — Number of Civil War Union corpses found in the South through a federal reinterment program from 1866-1869 303,356 — Number of Union soldiers who ...