At the time, Jackson had been providing daily care for Bolin, a widower who served as a private in the 14th Missouri Cavalry ... the organization Daughters of Union Veterans of the Civil War ...

On both sides, the Civil War boasted men who were brilliant and charismatic ... Mosby's Frock Coat National Museum of American History John Singleton Mosby's Cavalry Jacket and Hat ...

In the Civil War South, death was omnipresent ... The scene depicted here, the funeral of Confederate cavalry captain Willian D. Latane, only approximated such a service, as it lacked a clergyman ...

Editor's Note: Shauna Devine, Ph.D., is a historian of Civil War and American medicine ... 14 th Pennsylvania Cavalry Volunteers, who received an “accidental wound” of the phalangeal ...