The Public "I"

  When Captain William Yeger's company of cavalry slipped back into Jackson, Mississippi, late in the afternoon of 16 May, 1863, the tow...

On the Wednesday afternoon of 24 June, 1863, Captain Ferdinand Osmin (Fred) Claiborne, commander of the Maryland 3 rd  Light Artillery, rece...

  Henry Foster apprenticed as a bricklayer in the Ohio River town of Jeffersonville, Indiana. The city of 4,000 was a prosperous place, just...