A Massachusetts woman and Hokie whose ancestors founded Radford has donated more than 1,200 Civil War-era letter and ...

The Wharton family stumbled upon over a thousand Civil War documents dating from the 1840s to the 1900s, firsthand accounts during wartime in Southwest Virginia and around 500 love letters between ...

Noting that “Americans of the Civil War years enjoyed unprecedented levels of literacy and did not hesitate to record what they had seen, heard, and done in a flood of letters ... ordinary soldiers ...