The Missouri Digital Heritiage Civil War Resources is so vast and so massive that it would take more time than I have to go through it all. It is one of the largest online FREE archives that I know of and contains 500,000 digitized Civil War records! It is organized into specific collections of family and individual letters and holdings, as well as specific newspapers and other documents. Specific topics…

An auction house has a Civil War letter (at the appalling cost of $3,500) written by Frederick M. Crandal (1831-1911), a Union colonel who was in command of the 48th Regiment of U.S. Colored Troops during the Battle of Fort Blakely (April 9, 1865). Partial Transcript” “I recd your letter as this craft was sailing from Mobile. I was glad to hear that you still survive & that the ‘Bloody…

In northern Dakota Territory in 1864 Company I, 30th Wisconsin Infantry began publishing a weekly newspaper, the Frontier Scout at Fort Union deep in Indian country on July 7, 1864. The 30th Wisconsin was taking part in General Alfred Sully’s campaigns against the Sioux. Garrisoned at Fort Union and then Fort Rice, the unit protect supply lines and peaceful Indians that gathered near the forts. The newspaper’s run was not…