Peter A. Lentz was born in Luxembourg on May 1, 1832. He enlisted in the 1st Minnesota Cavalry Regiment on Nov. 11, 1862, and was commissioned into Company E as a 2nd lieutenant on Dec. 10 of that ...

In recent times of conflict, it’s common to picture young men in their late teens going off to war. But Samuel Eddy, a Chesterfield blacksmith, was 40 years old when left to fight for the Union in the ...

Gordon C. Rhea, a Mount Pleasant resident, has authored an historical biography called “Stephen A. Swails: Black Freedom Fighter in the Civil War and Reconstruction.” The book, published by LSU Press ...

BATAVIA — William Tecumseh Sherman is one of the Civil War’s more controversial generals. “What a complex guy this is. This is a guy you love and hate by turns,” said Derek Maxfield, an associate ...

Shortly after 9/11, a group of Palestinian students had some questions for an American reporter about the lives and history of Muslims in America that sent him on a decadeslong journey, researching ...

Harvard history professor Gienapp (The Origins of the Republican Party) devotes a mere 70 pages of his brief new biography to Abraham Lincoln's prepresidential life; in a volume that "synthesizes ...

That the place where the Civil War reached its turning point had become a shrine to the courage of those who fought to destroy the nation and preserve slavery should not have been a surprise. It has ...

While Reading Brad Neely’s “You, Me, and Ulysses S. Grant,” I kept thinking of Norman O. Brown’s writing about the excremental vision, as employed by Jonathan Swift and James Joyce, and applied to a ...