The 45th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry received its baptism by fire at the Battle of South Mountain in September 1862.

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

An account of the 71st Pennsylvania's debacle at the Battle of Ball's Bluff in October 1861.

Veterans at Gettysburg used Alexander Stephens's infamous speech about slavery to argue that the Confederate cause was unjust and wrong.

In the aftermath of the Battle of Fredericksburg, the 125th Pennsylvania experienced thick, sucking mud and lice known as "graybacks."

Wounded at Petersburg in June 1864, Sergeant Ephraim Myers soldiered through with the help of his full canteen of coffee.

Guest contributor EJ Murphy details the experiences of the 132nd Pennsylvania at the Battle of Fredericksburg.

In his memoir, Frederick Hitchcock vividly describes how he escaped death at the Battle of Fredericksburg.

In the summer of 1863, the 11th Pennsylvania Cavalry took part in raids that disrupted Confederate communication and supplies in Virginia.

The 132nd Pennsylvania received its baptism by fire during the Battle of Antietam on September 17, 1862.

A newspaper correspondent in the 46th Pennsylvania described his fight on August 9, 1862 at the Battle of Cedar Mountain.

The 76th Pennsylvania made numerous bloody assaults against Confederate fortifications on Morris Island in July 1863.

A confrontation between an officer and two soldiers turned bloody in the days after the Battle of Gettysburg.

"Is it possible that we love our country less, and are we less worthy to be instructed by it than before we took up arms to defend it?"

Colonel James McCarter's powerful speech to his troops in the 93rd Pennsylvania on their march to Gettysburg.

A soldier from the Coal Region details his experience in York County during the Gettysburg Campaign in a letter.

The story of a drafted militia unit organized in Pennsylvania in 1862.