Between Home and the Front: Civil War Letters of the Walters Family (Lynn Heidelbaugh, Thomas J. Paone - DLM) replica and many political and military

and many political and military leaders initiated or accelerated their own ironclad-building programs

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Buying and Selling Civil War Memory in Gilded Age America (UnCivil Wars Ser

Lincoln personally comforted the wounded troops who flooded wartime Washington

a member of the 6th Michigan Cavalry who was captured at Charles Town

Between Home and the Front: Civil War Letters of the Walters Family (Lynn Heidelbaugh, Thomas J. Paone - DLM) replica and many political and militaryEdited by Lynn Heidelbaugh and Thomas Paone by Smithsonian National Postal Museum The personal letters of Americans during the Civil War preserve first person records of news, people, and emotions that humanize the horrific events of the war and provide unique insights into the conflict's effects on individuals, families, communities, and America. Often, however, only the letters sent home survived, leaving half of the story missing. Between Home and