Illustration: the Alamo Mission in San Antonio, Texas. It was first printed in 1854 in Gleason's Pictorial Drawing Room Companion. Credit: Frank Thompson, "The Alamo" (2005), p. 106; Wikimedia Commons.

Courageous Words from the Alamo as Siege Begins

By Tony Pettinato on February 23, 2017

An article about a letter sent from the Alamo by William Barret Travis before the final Mexican assault at the Battle of the Alamo... (Read More)

Photo: a refugee family during the Civil War leaving a war area with belongings loaded on a cart. Credit: National Archives.

Fiery Letter from a ‘Nashville She Rebel’

By Tony Pettinato on May 24, 2016

An article featuring a letter written during the Civil War by a Confederate woman in Tennessee to her prisoner-of-war cousin held in Indiana... (Read More)

Photo: Noncommissioned Officers Mess of Company D, 93d New York Infantry, Bealeton, Virginia, Aug. 1863. Source: Wikipedia.

Union Soldier Describes Daily Life in Civil War Camp

By Tony Pettinato on May 17, 2016

An article featuring a Civil War letter written by a Connecticut soldier, Philip W. Hudson, to his father on 17 May 1861... (Read More)

Old Family Letters: Grammie Shooting Critters from the Bathroom Window?

By Thomas Jay Kemp on April 25, 2016

An article about preserving family letters by digitizing them and putting them online... (Read More)

Illustration: Civil War Battle of Chickamauga. Credit: Kurz & Allison; U.S. Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.

A Confederate Soldier Writes Home

By Tony Pettinato on March 24, 2016

Some of the most moving accounts we have from the Civil War are the letters soldiers wrote to their loved ones during that great conflict... (Read More)

Tag: Letters & Diaries or Journals