Lieutenant James M. Carver of the 104th Pennsylvania designed a barracks that became famous in Washington during the Civil War.

The origins of one of the Civil War's most famous units can be traced to the immediate aftermath of Fort Sumter in April 1861.

George Bergner edited the "Telegraph" newspaper in the Pennsylvania state capital throughout the Civil War.

President-elect Abraham Lincoln spoke repeatedly to audiences in Pennsylvania as he crossed the state to attend his inauguration in 1861.

The 10th New York Cavalry spent Christmas 1861 in the Adams County seat. Decades later, they remembered the experience of a holiday at war.

Captain Robert Galway bravely led his Pennsylvanians into action at the Battle of Dranesville on December 20, 1861.