Harper's Ferry, West Virginia (top) and Chickamauga, Georgia (bottom) were the sites of two Civil War battles. Eliot Dudik In “Poem of Wonder at the Resurrection of the Wheat,” Walt Whitman ...

At the time of the Civil War, camera shutters were too slow to record ... could neither maneuver the rough terrain nor record images in the midst of battle. So newspaper publishers hired amateur ...

It was a point of supply for Meriwether Lewis’s Corps of Discovery, the site of John Brown’s abolitionist raid in 1859, a key Civil War battlefield ... Bipartisan Issue in West Virginia Press Release ...

The American Civil War was the first major conflict ... from snapping even the most graphic of post-battle images to illustrate the horrors of war. Several of the images in this gallery are ...

American Idol star Noah Thompson visits Chesterfield County Jail inmates in HARP program These battlefields, which span nearly 150 acres across Henrico, were important sites during the Civil War.