Taken in New Orleans in 1867, this photograph was sold by J. Mountain Antiques of Ashburnham, MA. Pictured, left to right, are 1st Lt. Ballard S. Humphrey, Sgt. John B. Charlton (guidon, Battery K), Capt. William Montrose Graham, 2nd Lt.… continue reading

This fascinating map is found in the 1895 Annual Report to stockholders of the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad Company, Horace John Hayden, Second Vice President. It’s online as a PDF from Terry Link on his Canada Southern… continue reading

Credited to Matthew Brady, this 1864 photograph is in the collection of the Library of Congress, and is labeled Petersburg, Va., vicinity. Maj. Thomas T. Eckert (seated, left) and others of U.S. Military Telegraph Corps Major Thomas Thompson Eckert was… continue reading

At left here is brevet Lieutenant Colonel and AAG Robert Hampton Ramsey (1838-1876), of General George Thomas’ staff, previously of the 45th Pennsylvania Militia, and on the right a very tired-looking Captain Edward Henry Leib, former First Defender from Pottsville,… continue reading

This photograph of General John Buford with four members of his staff is among Civil War Photographs, 1861-1865 at the Library of Congress. From the print: left to right: Bvt. Lt. Col. Myles Keogh, Maj. Gen. John Buford, Capt. Peter… continue reading

Young Ebenezer Clough Allen was desperate to become a professional soldier but his parents wouldn’t let him enlist for war with Mexico in 1847. He applied to the Secretary of War in January 1848 for a spot at West Point,… continue reading