veterans

Published: 2/3/25

Veterans Visit an Idealized West

By: Cecily Zander

Category: The Front Line

In July 1883, thousands of former Union soldiers in the East and Midwest boarded railroad cars bound for Denver, Colorado, to attend the Seventeenth National Encampment of the Grand Army...

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Published: 11/11/24

Civil War Veterans, Part 1

By: The Civil War Monitor

Category: Photo Essays

View Union and Confederate Civil War veterans—by themselves and at reunions—in photos taken throughout the postwar decades.

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Published: 8/2/24

Boy Soldiers

By: Frances M. Clarke and Rebecca Jo Plant

Category: Articles

One in 10 Union soldiers was underage when they enlisted. Their presence disrupted families, created chaos—and helped win the war.

Published: 7/1/24

The Forgotten Men: Veterans of the Indian Wars

By: Cecily Zander

Category: The Front Line

The confluence of Civil War memory and the historical legacy of the postbellum Indian wars has not received substantial attention from historians. But in the American West the two inevitably...

Published: 8/11/21

Grand Army of Labor (2021)

By: David A. Zonderman

Category: Book Reviews

How the Civil War both strengthened and constrained the American labor movement.