Photo: close-up of Rev. Peter P. Cooney. Credit: Notre Dame Special Collection.

Easter Celebration: Remembering Father Cooney

By Melissa Berry on April 18, 2025

Melissa Davenport Berry writes about Father Cooney celebrating Easter Mass on a Civil War battlefield during the Atlanta Campaign in 1864... (Read More)

Photo: Abraham Lincoln, by Alexander Gardner, 8 November 1863. Credit: Mead Art Museum; Wikimedia Commons.

Lincoln Pleads for Peace in War-Torn Missouri

By Tony Pettinato on February 20, 2025

A letter Pres. Lincoln wrote to Missouri Gov. Fletcher on 20 February 1865 pleading for “old friendships” and “Christian charity” to end the violence... (Read More)

Illustration: “The March of Time,” by Henry Sandham, 1896. This painting shows a parade of veterans of the U.S. Civil War during Decoration Day. General William Tecumseh Sherman is in the front row at the far right. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

Memorial Day: GAR Civil War Vets (part 3)

By Melissa Berry on May 23, 2024

In this third of a three-part series, Melissa Davenport Berry looks back over the years at Memorial Day services involving Union veterans of the Civil War... (Read More)

Memorial Day: GAR Civil War Vets (part 2)

By Melissa Berry on May 22, 2024

In this second of a three-part series, Melissa Davenport Berry looks back over the years at Memorial Day services involving Union veterans of the Civil War... (Read More)

Memorial Day: GAR Civil War Vets (part 1)

By Melissa Berry on May 21, 2024

In this article, Melissa Davenport Berry looks back over the years at Memorial Day services involving Union veterans of the Civil War... (Read More)

Photo: gravestone for Albert D. J. Cashier at Sunny Slope Cemetery in Saunemin, Livingston County, Illinois. Cashier was buried with full military honors. Credit: Nancy, Doug, and Linda Bell of Illinois.

Female Civil War Soldier Served as a Man (part 2)

By Melissa Berry on November 17, 2023

Melissa Davenport Berry gives more details of the remarkable story of Albert Cashier, a woman who fought 40 battles in the Civil War disguised as a man!.. (Read More)

Photo: Civil War soldier Albert Cashier. Credit: Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum; Wikimedia Commons.

Female Civil War Soldier Served as a Man (part 1)

By Melissa Berry on November 14, 2023

Melissa Davenport Berry tells the remarkable story of Albert Cashier, a woman who fought 40 battles in the Civil War disguised as a man!.. (Read More)

Photo: Grand Army of the Republic members at the 250th anniversary of the settlement of Dedham, Massachusetts, 1886.This photograph, originally taken in September 1886, was published in the "Dedham Transcript," 21 May 1921. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

For Veterans Day: Anecdotes of Civil War Vets (part 2)

By Melissa Berry on November 10, 2023

In this article, in honor of Veterans Day, Melissa Davenport Berry shares more fun and even startling stories about Civil War veterans... (Read More)

For Veterans Day: Anecdotes of Civil War Vets (part 1)

By Melissa Berry on November 7, 2023

In this article, in honor of Veterans Day, Melissa Davenport Berry shares some fun and even startling stories about Civil War veterans... (Read More)

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