Between Home and the Front: Civil War Letters of the Walters Family (Lynn Heidelbaugh, Thomas J. Paone - DLM) Section- African Americans and Freedom urging his contemporaries into the

urging his contemporaries into the unknown future

Samuel Alexander Mudd

Sears depicts General Meade's remarkable performance in his first week of army comand and pinpoints General Lee's responsibility in the agonizing failure of the Confederate Army

Marbury’s compilation of nineteenth-century patterns

Read about the trick that the Western Maryland Railroad used to get into Pennsylvania without a charter

Between Home and the Front: Civil War Letters of the Walters Family (Lynn Heidelbaugh, Thomas J. Paone - DLM) Section- African Americans and Freedom urging his contemporaries into theEdited 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