Collection of diaries and letters from North Carolina soldiers who fought at the Battle of Gettysburg.

Hess tells the full story of "Pettigrew's Brigade," perhaps the best-known and most successful of North Carolina's units during the Civil War. The brigade playe

Remembering the Civil War: Reunion and the Limits of Reconciliation

The American Civil War was scarcely over when a group of ladies met in Raleigh and began to plan commemoration for the honored Confederate dead of North Carolin

If, as many have argued, the Civil War is the most crucial moment in our national life and Gettysburg its turning point, then the climax of the climax, the cent