Richard CondonMay 203 min"...our feet struck the sand of South Carolina." - A Pennsylvanian's Recollection of the Lowcountry.As the Federal government tightened its grip on Port Royal Sound in early November 1861, Confederates from Hilton Head's Fort Walker and ...
Richard CondonMay 1310 min"Slavery is over, and shall never return again." - Martin Delany takes a stance on ReconstructionAs the American Civil War drew to a close in the spring of 1865, Major Martin R. Delany, formerly of Pittsburgh, found himself a comforta...
Richard CondonMay 106 min"Anxiety and love..." - A Pittsburgh mother's worrisome letter to a son on the war frontIn early October 1862, the men of the newly deployed 155th Pennsylvania Infantry found themselves encamped at Camp McCauley, within close...
