EJ Murphy stumbled across this story of Confederate veterans in Washington in the pages of a Scranton newspaper from 1907.

"This is one of the mostly lovely places that I have seen since I bid farewell to my native home, in Ohio."

An obituary for a Pennsylvania soldier who died of disease in August 1862.

Two decades after Lee surrendered at Appomattox Court House, a Pennsylvania veteran sparked a fierce debate over the memory of the event.

The Miners' Journal of Pottsville, PA published a victory poem written by a local man after Confederate surrender in April 1865.

How did the community of Lancaster, Pennsylvania react to news of Richmond's fall in 1865?

William W. Warren lost a medal he wore around his neck after being wounded and captured at the Battle of Antietam.

A newspaper editorial lamented the horrific costs of the Civil War in a November 1864 editorial in the Pottsville "Miners' Journal."

A Jefferson County native wrote to his wife about his time as a prisoner-of-war and how he felt to finally be free.

In the days after the Battle of Antietam, a team of Pennsylvania journalists arrived on the battlefield to report on what they saw.

An Adams County newspaper editor grappled with the meaning and consequences of the Battle of Gettysburg in the weeks after the fight.

A reporter from Harrisburg's Patriot and Union newspaper described the scene at Gettysburg in the days after the 1863 battle.