Add to ORKGUnion veterans returning home from the war in 1865 faced a myriad of experiences and reacted to the return to civilian life in a variety of ways. Richard D. Dunphy and Lewis A. Horton, both double-arm amputee veterans of the Navy, ably demonstrate the differences in experience and reaction to the war and life afterwards. [excerpt
This is the last in a three-part series on the legacy of the Civil War at the Virginia Military Inst...
Back at the beginning of the summer, I was asked by the College to write a piece on the history of t...
The tale of Sergent Frederick Huber is relatively well known. The young man, fighting at the battle ...
When I first received the bundle of Richard Dunphy’s pension documents, I was prepared to begin rese...
After losing both arms in a gunnery accident aboard the USS Rhode Island in 1863 and being told he w...
Within four hours of Richard Dunphy’s grievous wounding at the Battle of Mobile Bay, both of his arm...
By January 1866, the war had concluded and the country’s divisions had begun to heal. Richard Dunphy...
In 1893, two Philadelphia doctors from the Mütter Museum sent surveys to Civil War amputee veterans ...
Looking back on the practices of Civil War Americans, many people tend to believe the Civil War was ...
After three months in Washington, the Dauphin County Regiment was at last headed south. Resentment i...
In Special Collections here at Gettysburg College is a compilation of letters by Civil War officers ...
Marching in the Gettysburg Liberty Parade in May 1918 was a drum corps consisting entirely of Civil ...
Marching in the Gettysburg Liberty Parade in May 1918 was a drum corps consisting entirely of Civil ...
Marching in the Gettysburg Liberty Parade in May 1918 was a drum corps consisting entirely of Civil ...
This piece was transcribed and edited by Michael J. Birkner and Richard E. Winslow. With fighting co...
This is the last in a three-part series on the legacy of the Civil War at the Virginia Military Inst...
Back at the beginning of the summer, I was asked by the College to write a piece on the history of t...
The tale of Sergent Frederick Huber is relatively well known. The young man, fighting at the battle ...
When I first received the bundle of Richard Dunphy’s pension documents, I was prepared to begin rese...
After losing both arms in a gunnery accident aboard the USS Rhode Island in 1863 and being told he w...
Within four hours of Richard Dunphy’s grievous wounding at the Battle of Mobile Bay, both of his arm...
By January 1866, the war had concluded and the country’s divisions had begun to heal. Richard Dunphy...
In 1893, two Philadelphia doctors from the Mütter Museum sent surveys to Civil War amputee veterans ...
Looking back on the practices of Civil War Americans, many people tend to believe the Civil War was ...
After three months in Washington, the Dauphin County Regiment was at last headed south. Resentment i...
In Special Collections here at Gettysburg College is a compilation of letters by Civil War officers ...
Marching in the Gettysburg Liberty Parade in May 1918 was a drum corps consisting entirely of Civil ...
Marching in the Gettysburg Liberty Parade in May 1918 was a drum corps consisting entirely of Civil ...
Marching in the Gettysburg Liberty Parade in May 1918 was a drum corps consisting entirely of Civil ...
This piece was transcribed and edited by Michael J. Birkner and Richard E. Winslow. With fighting co...
This is the last in a three-part series on the legacy of the Civil War at the Virginia Military Inst...
Back at the beginning of the summer, I was asked by the College to write a piece on the history of t...
The tale of Sergent Frederick Huber is relatively well known. The young man, fighting at the battle ...