I recently discovered a mis-attributed and poorly transcribed letter in the Purdue University Archives. What was identified as an “M. Miller” letter is actually the letter of 20th  Indiana Col. William Lyon Brown of Nov. 4th 1861 to a friend in Indianapolis describing the disgraceful event the newspapers simply called the “Chicamacomico Affair” on Hatteras, [...]

Here are the first sketches of the main characters of the children’s Civil War book I started writing last month. Met with the prospective illustrator again today. Meet Henry Hines age 12 (L) and George Washington Gerber age 14 (R) who ran away from their Lancaster PA homes in September 1861, only to be captured [...]

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