Letters from the Sheridan Subject Hospital
A gloomy and tragic scene—one with which the inhabitants of the oft-contested metropolis of Winchester, Va., had been sadly all too acquainted—unfolded all through the evening of September 19, 1864,…
Social History
A Witness to the July 1863 New York Draft Riots
In her day, Elizabeth Oakes Smith was a nationwide determine. Born in Maine in 1806, she and her household moved to New York Metropolis within the late 1830s, the place…
How the Hungarian Hussars started a vogue growth
Hussars have been gentle cavalry fashions with roots in Central and Jap Europe. Nicely-known for charging into battle on horseback and combating with sabers, they’ve been fierce and by no…