As Abraham Lincoln‘s funeral train — the Lincoln Special — travels from Harrisburg to Philadelphia, tens of thousands of people line the route to catch a glimpse of the car bearing Lincoln’s remains. Not since the deaths of America’s Founding Fathers has there seemingly been national mourning on the massive scale as that over the…
The war has displaced many families North, South and in-between. The later includes the Wallace family of Paducah, Kentucky, an Upper South state that opted for neutrality rather than join the Confederacy. Philip Hugh Wallace practiced law prior to the war, earning a good living for his family thanks to the slave-based economy of the…
Hundreds of thousands of soldiers comprise the armies of the United States and Confederate States combined. Battle wounds, illnesses, despair, loneliness, and other ailments often characterize the lives of soldiers who are fortunate enough to have survived the war thus far. And hovering above all is the ever-present cloud of homesickness. Left to fend for…