Category: U.S. Historical News

The Battle Cry of Freedom was a popular Union song during the Civil War. I’ve included a YouTube video for the song. It was written…

“While We Were Marching Through Georgia” was a Union song sung during the Civil War. I’ve included a YouTube video of the original song. In…

The following article, published in 1915, shows that the designer of the Confederate flag was in dispute among Confederate veterans and that it basically came…

A brief look into the design(s) of the Confederate flag shows that there were originally over 200 different designs sketched out to represent the Confederacy….

Visiting the Civil War battlefields around Richmond, Virginia raised a lot of questions about the boys and men who were injured during the Civil War….

Revolutionary War General Greene needed to get a message to General Sumter, but after none of his men volunteered for the job, an 18-year-old Emily…

It is estimated that anywhere between 620,000 to 850,000 soldiers died in America’s Civil War from 1861 to 1865. while the war between North and…

A lot of interesting, do-it-yourself items were published in newspapers during the Civil War including the following recipe for toothpowder. I am placing this recipe…

In 1855, Seyer wrote a list of easy recipes for soldiers in the field and the recipes were printed again for use by the Confederates…

There was a huge kissing phobia in the early 1900s and it was recommended to use lemons and an antiseptic kissing screen if there was…