The year was 1864. The freezing winds off Lake Michigan swept across the snow laden grounds and through the cracks of a building that held Southern prisoners ...

After four years of bitter struggles and immeasurable cost in human lives and property, the armies laid down their weapons and the country was reunited. ...

The American Civil War claimed and destroyed lives, stealing fathers and sons from those they loved. The horror caused many returning to cry out for death. ...

In the antebellum American South, a family who were among the first to enter east central Mississippi in the 1830s are forced into the Civil War despite ...