Fort Abraham Lincoln

Established in November 1872, Fort Abraham Linc...

Grand Rapids and the Civil War

Grand Rapids responded to President Abraham Lin...

The 1935 Republican River Flood

On May 31, 1935, a storm system surged along th...

Grand Rapids and the Civil War

Jesse James and the Civil War in Missouri

Discusses the underlying causes of the US Civil...

Camp Douglas: Chicago’s Civil War Prison

Kelly Pucci explores the dark history of this h...

Michigan’s Civil War Citizen-General

With vivid battlefield accounts based on extens...

St. Louis in the Civil War

On May 10, 1861, Union troops surrounded Camp J...

Wilson’s Creek National Battlefield: Civil War Collection

The Civil War claimed over 620,000 lives from A...

Remembering Michigan’s Civil War Soldiers

When the 1st Michigan Volunteer Infantry regime...

The Civil War in Kansas: Ten Years of Turmoil

In the 1850s, the eyes of the world were on Kan...

Michigan’s Civil War Citizen-General: Alpheus S. Williams

Detroit's Alpheus Starkey Williams never tired ...