A candidate for the title of “unsung hero” among the Union generals of the Civil War, Alpheus Williams, “Old Pap” to his men, wrote as frequently as he

Engaging Correspondence Of This Michigan General In The Union Army During The American Civil War, Recounting The Battles Of Second Bull Run, Antietam, Chancello

Fifty-one years old when the Civil War broke out, Alpheus S. Williams was commissioned brigadier general of volunteers in the Army of the Potomac. These letters

The Civil War was the most traumatic event in American history, pitting Americans against one another, rending the national fabric, leaving death and devastatio

The importance of Robert E. Lee’s first movement north of the Potomac River in September 1862 is difficult to overstate. After his string of successes in Virg