A well-educated, outspoken member of a politically prominent family in Bowling Green, Kentucky, Josie Underwood (1840–1923) left behind one of the few intimat

“One of the best primary accounts of the Civil War by a Confederate. John Dooley was the youngest son of Irish immigrants to Richmond, Virginia, where his fat

Between March 1862 and May 1865, Mississippian William Pitt Chambers kept a journal of his infantry service during the War Between the States. Having been a sch