President Abraham Lincoln stared directly toward the camera as a photographer removed the lens cover; and after several seconds, the image was captured. The resulting photograph emphasized the heavy lines of Lincoln’s face as the president, weighed down by the horrors of the Civil War, staring directly at the viewer. This powerful image, however, would [...]
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Confederate’s grave found - a first for city cemetery
May 23rd, 2012 
javal Volunteers in a nonprofit group maintaining Wilmington’s historic Riverview Cemetery knew hundreds of veterans were buried there. The earliest fought in the Civil War, but the volunteers had seen grave markers only of Union soldiers. Until last week. A new marker was installed for Pvt. Madison McDaniel, the site’s only known Confederate veteran. Read More>>
Program reflects on Civil War
December 5th, 2011 javal Jason Hiester, an Ohio Wesleyan University music professor, had always dreamed of staging a more elaborate multimedia choral production. It took the 150th anniversary of the Civil War to provide a subject suitably grandiose to fit his vision. Hiester, 37, conceived and arranged Civil War Reflections, a performance of which he will direct at 6 [...]
Delaware Public Archives commemorates Civil War anniversary with special program
November 1st, 2011 javal The Delaware Public Archives will continue its commemoration of the Civil War with a special program at 10:30 a.m. on Nov. 5 at the archive, 121 Duke of York St., Dover. The program, “The Tragic Odyssey of Obie Evan and other African Americans in Civil-War Delaware,” will examine the life of escaped and freed slaves [...]
Discovery in the attic
July 6th, 2011 javal Ritchie Garrison was helping to clean out his late uncle’s attic in Massachusetts when he came upon an intriguing department store bag. “When I saw what was inside, I almost fell over,” the University of Delaware history professor says. It was his great-grandfather George T. Garrison’s folded-up shelter tent from the Civil War, or more [...]
Delaware Public Archives accepts Buckson Collection of Civil War Letters
June 28th, 2011 javal In May, the Delaware Public Archives received a donation of American Civil War documents consisting of approximately 65 original letters written during the war by Stephen Taylor Buckson. Donated by a Florida woman who is the great-granddaughter of Buckson, the letters were written to Buckson’s wife Harriett from 1862 to 1864. Stephen Buckson enlisted in [...]
Fallen Civil War infantryman’s stories come to life in his letters
June 21st, 2011 javal Sgt. Stephen Taylor Buckson, of the 4th Delaware Volunteer Infantry, didn’t live to tell his Civil War stories. He was killed in June 1864 as Union forces, trying to disrupt supply lines, attacked Confederate defenses near Petersburg, Va. Read More>>
Delaware Gets Dozens of Civil War Letters
June 21st, 2011 javal The Delaware Public Archives has been given a collection of 65 letters written by a Delaware soldier during the height of the American Civil War. The letters, written by Sgt. Stephen Taylor Buckson, detail the pain of being away from loved ones and the anguish that comes with watching men die in the heat of [...]