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Shenandoah University Civil War Institute director Jonathan Noyalas talked about how veterans and widows applied for pensions and the ways that states and military organizations provided for…

Sam Houston State University professor Brian Matthew Jordan talked about how Union soldiers confronted the thousands of dead men and horses after the 1862 Battle of Antietam. This talk was p…

Virginia Military Institute professor Jonathan Jones talked about how opium and morphine -- common treatments used for wartime injuries -- grew into lifelong drug dependence for many in the …

Melissa Winn of the American Battlefield Trust talked about the rise of portrait photography during the Civil War. She described how it enabled separated families to carry pictures of loved …