Brave black Civil War soldier Sandy Wills was recently given ... pull historic documents from the National Archive along with family-tree records and eventually traced Sandy’s grave site to ...

As many as 20% of Civil War soldiers were younger than 18 ... men went to war made up for their absence. Kids helped run family farms and businesses. They planted and harvested crops, chopped ...

Women presenting as men — whether to escape the stifling construct of feminine life or to stay close to husbands or brothers ...

Others show how a loved one was cherished through a photograph. This section displays objects that helped the soldier get through the atrocities of war—objects that have helped generations since in ...

Most the soldiers were Swedish immigrants ... Stutelberg notes that many current congregants can trace their family back generations – to the Civil War solders and the founders of 1858 church.

The ship’s pilot helped his family reach freedom ... At the height of the Civil War, a soldier advocacy group displayed a sculpture made from the presidential follicles of Abraham Lincoln ...