Category: Civil War

John Jacob Omenhausser was born in 1832 in Philadelphia to a German immigrant family. When the Civil War began he was living in Richmond, Virginia….

Hellmira: The Union’s Most Infamous Civil War Prison Camp – Elmira, NY by Derick Maxfield published by Savas Beatie (2020) 192 pages Hellmira: The Union’s…

24 % of the Confederate soldiers held at Elmira prison camp died there. In 2019 I was moving my step-son up to college at SUNY…

In 2017, Earl Hess had an interesting article in the Journal Civil War History. It focuses on the use of the Early Indicators database for…

The Business of Captivity: Elmira and Its Civil War Prison by Michael Gray published by Kent State University Press (2001) ​ If every Northerner knew…

I was rereading the September 2017 issue of Civil War history recently. It had a roundtable discussion by academic and public historians about Civil War…

The treatment of prisoners of war, many of whom were not released until after the surrender of the Confederate armies, was a contentious issue during…

Crossing the Deadlines: Civil War Prisons Reconsidered by Michael P. Gray (Editor) published by Kent State University Press (2018) 256 pages ​ This is a…

Civil War Prisons edited by William B. Hesseltine published by The Kent State University Press (1972) 123 pages ​ This collection of short essays, originally…

This is one in a series of scrapbooks focusing on United States Colored Troops (USCT) regiments. These are not regimental histories and I invite you…