In his years as the trusted war horse of Gen. George Meade, Old Baldy fought for the Union in bloody battles from Antietam to Gettysburg. Well over a century later, he's in the middle of a court ...

In his 1960 poem, "For the Union Dead," Robert Lowell contrasts the nearly forgotten civic virtue of "Colonel Shaw and his bell-cheeked Negro infantry on St. Gaudens' shaking Civil War relief ...

Looking back on the Civil War in his 1882 “Specimen Days & Collect,” Walt Whitman reflected that “the real war will never get in the books.” He had tried, in “Drum-Taps” (1865), a ...