On both sides, the Civil War boasted men who were brilliant and charismatic—and others who did not ... Army Lieutenant John Singleton Mosby's Frock Coat National Museum of American History John ...

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

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 ...

An uneducated farm-boy who became the Civil War’s most brilliant cavalry officer, Nathan Bedford Forrest reportedly had 30 horses shot out from under him. Enlisting as a private in a mounted ...