by Gordon Thorsby There is probably more written about the 7thMichigan Cavalry than any other cavalry regiment from Michigan but the...

by Gordon Thorsby Forest Rose at the construction of the Alexandia Dam 1864 Forest Rose was a sternwheeler tinclad #9, with a...

by Gordon Thorsby From Inside the Breastworks of Ft. Harrison (LOC) How important was Ft. Harrison? Very. It was the largest redoubt on...

by Gordon Thorsby An Unknown soldier returned to SC from unknown origin Gardner's photographs after the Battle of Gettysburg documented...

by Gordon Thorsby From Currier and Ives The 14th Michigan Infantry was officially organized in the Detroit area but only three companies...

by Gordon Thorsby Map of the Battle of Gaines Mill (LOC) In four years of the American Civil War, there were hundreds of instances where...

By Gordon Thorsby Ft. Sumter (LOC) For students and historians of the Civil War, there are many questions and controversies about...

by Gordon Thorsby View from Little Round Top 2021 Gens. George Meade and Dan Sickles were having an animated discussion in the Peach...

by Gordon Thorsby Picture of a Union Camp outside Chattanooga “The battle was brutal and simple. ‘They done the charging and our men did...

by Gordon Thorsby Sherman's Commanders; Howard left, Hazen standing to his right, Slocum right of Sherman. (LOC) Knowing what happened at...

by Gordon Thorsby Disease and battle took many soldiers in four years and permanent wounds to many others. The best the soldier could do...

by Gordon Thorsby The 13" Mortar "Dictator at Petersburg (LOC) In the middle of June,1864, Union soldiers were were living in the deadly,...

by Gordon Thorsby Major H.H. Sams in the possession of Ting (Sams) Colquhoun of Beaufort, SC "As soon as he [General Elliott] returned to...

by Gordon Thorsby Attack of the Union Flotilla at Galveston. Courtesy of Harper's Weekly New Orleans was taken at the end of April,1862...

by Gordon Thorsby 21st Michigan (Geo. Schanzel was in the regt.) From my youth, I have seen the dull red obelisk and have always...

by Gordon Thorsby Brigadier Gen. Mathew C. Butler, of the South Carolina Brigade James Madison Hough wrote what may have been an epitaph...

by Gordon Thorsby The gaff schooner America was the first American yacht to win the race for the United States trouncing 15 other boats...

by Gordon Thorsby On October 25, The Battle of Mine Creek (aka Battle of Osage) was a small fight in terms of casualties. However, it was...

by Gordon Thorsby Confederate Hospital (actually Richmond VA, April, 1865.) “...From my experiences since last writing on that...

by Gordon Thorsby Traverse City Asylum for the Insane In the Saginaw...