The letters written during this time shed light on the war that so few of us know. These letters are part of a collection written by Newton Robert Scott, Private, Company A, of the 36th Infantry, Iowa Volunteers, during the American Civil War. Lincoln's Assasination - General Ulysses S. Grant on how he heard about the assassination of President Lincoln. Locust Lawn, Civil War History - Presents social and military histories of the US Civil War. Special features on Lincoln artifacts.
Site also depicts social history, gardening, recipes, and architecture of Era.
Robert C. Cardin, Company B, 16th Tennessee Infantry - Memories about how a boy of seventeen went to war, what he saw and some of his experiences. Vermont Civil War Letters - Archived letters from Elijah Brown and Edwin Horton, plus Civil War links. The Wartime Diary of John Weathered - The exact time when the manuscript was written isn't clear but it was several years after the war while Weathered was in retirement. Bennett's Regiment or 9th Tennessee Cavalry. In Texas - In 1850, William Ryan immigrated to America from Ireland.