A match safe, lantern, frying pan, and cup would have been part of a soldier’s equipment. Hardtack is the name given to a thick cracker made of flour, water, and sometimes salt. While it has been ...

Fort Ward, the best preserved of the system of Union forts and batteries built to protect Washington, D.C. during the Civil War, brought that history to life with its annual Civil War Camp Day ...

Coffee was an important part of a Union soldier’s ration during the Civil War. Each soldier was issued 36 pounds of coffee per year.

Every soldier fears dying in combat. But in the Civil War, being taken prisoner was nearly as life-threatening, with contagious illnesses spreading like wildfire in unsanitary prison camps. How ...

Unaffiliated with Camp Cleveland, but solely extant to serve Union soldiers, it was called the United States General Hospital Cleveland (USGHC). With 320 beds, USGHC was one of 204 such facilities ...

The total number of estimated Confederate prisoner deaths at Camp Douglas during the Civil War ranges from 4,243 to 7,000. ... the Union prisoner of war camp located in Chicago, 1864.

The Michigan’s Military Heritage Museum moved inside a new building at 311 N. Wisner St. in Jackson, in 2021. This site was also known as Camp Blair, a Civil War Union Army camp named after ...