It’s a classic American tale: A family member passes away, and relatives discover their long-lost historical artifacts in the attic. In Nancy Woodward’s case, the artifacts are the personal diaries of ...
FRANKLIN – The long-lost diary of prominent Nashville historical figure and Civil War officer Randal William McGavock is now back in Tennessee after decades spent on a closet shelf in a Cincinnati ...
His great-grandfather looked so fierce in an oil portrait that young David Miller used to duck when he passed by. It was a daily ritual because the painting hung in a hallway of his grandmother's ...
Jonathan W. White was in California on another book project when he happened across the diaries of George Buswell. In the online catalog it said Buswell had served in Memphis, which he was researching ...
Norwalker Ed Isaacs says he nearly fell out of his chair in March 2009 when he learned that the diary of his great great grandfather, a Civil War soldier who guarded the Lincoln conspirators a century ...
A Civil War era flag that saw battle in Mississippi with the 31st Iowa Volunteers is on display at the Grout Museum in Waterloo, Iowa. It was a gift of the "ladies of Cedar Falls" and has been ...
Minor, Charles L. C. (Charles Landon Carter), 1835-1903, Harmon, Edward P. cash book maintained by Confederate Captain Charles L. C. Minor from 1860 to 1864. Also contained within the cash book's ...
SHERIDAN — On Jan. 16, 1865, John Prentice, a soldier in the Union Army in the American Civil War, participated in a battalion drill in Savannah, Georgia. In the three years prior, he’d witnessed and ...
DEDHAM — The extraordinary life and legacy of William Benjamin Gould had been all but forgotten here, the town where he raised eight children, was a founding member of an Episcopal church, and served ...
Every historian might be a bit of a voyeur (or snoop). We like to examine other people's letters. Reading an honest and well-written memoir can be fun as well as revelatory. We listen enthusiastically ...
NORWALK -- Ed Isaacs says he nearly fell out of his chair in March 2009 when he learned that the diary of his great-great-grandfather, a Civil War soldier who guarded the Lincoln conspirators a ...