Looking for the Confederate War

   As the war ground to a close, orders went out for the arrest of various political figures, including both sitting governors and former go...

   In the 1860s, with a war going on, the theater of operation for William Quantrill was a long way from the Confederate capitol in Richmond...

   We often say that the war was fought “brother vs. brother.” Here is another example, the Merriman family (You can read about two other fa...

    While we view lighthouses as interesting pieces of history, they also served a vital role in commerce in the 19 th century. These light...

     Prisoners of war were an inconvenient reality of the war years. When the first batches arrived in Richmond following the battle of firs...

Impeachments of judges and justices don’t really happen all that much in our history. By 1862, only three impeachments had been successfu...