Estimates of the number of men engaged at Gettysburg vary widely ... In the Union service these may be summarized as: Normally, accounts of Civil War battles rely for the numbers of troops rather ...

For its participants, the Gettysburg reenactment provides ... on in barely detectable but extremely fraught ways. During the real Civil War there was a similar obsession with identity markers.

Key Events: Tourists flock to Gettysburg during the summer months of June ... In addition to offering demonstrations with Civil War historians at Gettysburg National Military Park's battlefield ...

GETTYSBURG — A rare memoir of a Civil War veteran from Mooresburg has recently been found and published, offering more details about the successful 53rd Regiment, including the members ...

The Battle of Gettysburg, too, was explicitly a family affair. Many families sent soldiers who fought on opposite sides, including, as one reenactor recites to me by heart, the Walker brothers, the ...