Broken Drum wilderness Former soldiers in gray founded

Former soldiers in gray founded or co-founded many of our nation’s colleges and universities—some exclusively for women and newly freed African-Americans

the two armies shifted from stalemate in the Wilderness to slugfest in the mud

These spectacular cartographic creations bore down to the regimental and battery level

The violence of the criticism with which Lincoln had to deal came from both sides of the Mason-Dixon line and was overwhelming

“A film with personality

Broken Drum wilderness Former soldiers in gray foundedBroken Drum by Edith Morris Hemingway, Jacqueline Cosgrove Shields Based on an actual person, Broken Drum is the story of Charley King, a 12 year old drummer boy from West Chester, Pennsylvania, who is caught up in the excitement and patriotism during the early stages of the Civil War. Mustered into Company F of the Pennsylvania 49th Volunteers in September 1861, his journey begins with the defense of Washington as part of Major General George