A Quaker, Kirkbride Taylor is wounded at Petersburg, June 1864

Growing up in a Quaker household in Northern Virginia, Kirkbride Taylor respected peaceful principles. But after war divided the country, he set aside his medical

Under the banner of the First National

Guest blogpost: Ron Coddington | Publisher of Military Images Magazine UNDER THE BANNER OF THE FIRST NATIONAL.—The vast majority of wartime Confederate portraits of soldiers

Joe Quattlebaum’s War

Guest blogpost: Ron Coddington | Publisher of Military Images Magazine JOE QUATTLEBAUM’S WAR.—The journey of Joseph Elijah Quattlebaum, pictured here, of the 13th South Carolina

The Fall and Rise of a man without a country – Jefferson Davis

Guest blogpost: Ron Coddington | Publisher of Military Images Magazine THE FALL AND RISE OF A MAN WITHOUT A COUNTRY.—After his capture on May 9,

Backstory to an iconic Civil War image

Guest blogpost: Ron Coddington | Publisher of Military Images Magazine A HOSPITAL SCENE’S BACKSTORY, REVEALED.—A previously unpublished letter by Civil War nurse Annie Bell sheds

Scouling brows, old Abe’s Gardin and Mr. Big Gun

Guest blogpost: Ron Coddington | Publisher of Military Images Magazine SCOWLING BROWS, OLD ABE’S GARDIN AND MR. BIG GUN.— Union soldier Almon C. Barnard, pictured