At the time of the Civil War ... were America’s first pictorial war correspondents. They were young men (none were women) from diverse backgrounds—soldiers, engineers, lithographers and ...

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 ...

Editor's Note: Shauna Devine, Ph.D., is a historian of Civil ... by the war’s end most surgeons agreed on the efficacy of chloroform and there was consensus that it was a “soldier’s ...