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Ghosts of Gettysburg: Local ghost hunters get more than they bargained for at Gettysburg

Fact: Captain Henry C. Brainard, Co. G. 15th Alabama Infantry, was killed in action in Gettysburg July 2, 1863. He was 23 years old.

Shiloh National Military Park commemorating 159th anniversary of the Battle of Corinth, Oct. 2-5

Local author releases book - Portsmouth Daily Times

Red Badge of Courage - True West Magazine

True West Magazine Possibly identified in 2012 as Alonzo F. Thompson of Company C, 84th New York Infantry Regiment, (earlier known as 14th Regiment New York State Militia). The young soldier is wearing a Union zouave uniform with bayoneted 1855 rifle musket with initials A.T. on stock. – Courtesy Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs, Library of Congress/Source: Martinez, Ramona. “Photo Mystery Solved, Then Doubted, Then Deciphered, Thanks to Readers”; http://www.npr.org/blogs/pictureshow/2012/04/17/150801239/ – The young men of a divided nation answered the call of war 160 years ago, and their youthful visages before going to battle still haunt us today.

Army continues to honor Confederate unit histories, even as base names draw scrutiny

By ALEX HORTON | The Washington Post | Published: March 11, 2021 It was early September 1864 when Confederate raider John Hunt Morgan, with a reputation among Southerners as a swashbuckling gentleman, was surrounded by federal soldiers outside a Tennessee mansion. Morgan fled across the lawn. A Union bullet shredded the general s heart, a member of his staff wrote to Morgan s wife, ending his campaign of ambushing and capturing U.S. troops. Nearly 160 years later, Morgan s legacy lives within 1st Battalion, 623rd Field Artillery Regiment of the Kentucky National Guard, which traces its lineage through a cavalry unit he commanded. Its members are officially nicknamed Morgan s Men. On the radio, the commander is known by the call sign Morgan 6.