This offering from the Library of Congress (LOC) American Memory collection consists of musical scores, recordings, photographs, and essays documenting American brass band music in the second half of the nineteenth century. It includes over 700 musical compositions, a photo gallery, eight full-score modern editions, and a recording of a 1974 concert of mid-nineteenth-century brass band music....

Watching this site load up is quite a treat, as visitors are presented with a brief audio clip of a brass band playing "The Battle Hymn of the Republic". It's an appropriate introduction to this site, which offers an exploration of General William Tecumseh Sherman's well-known "March to the Sea", which cut across Georgia in the 1864, leaving a trial of destruction and a good deal of scorched earth...

The city of Chicago is home to a number of excellent collections of items related to the history of the Civil War. For starters, the Chicago History Museum has some fine Lincolnania, as does the University of Chicago. This particular collection of items hails from the collection of Wayne Whalen and provides visitors with unique insight into a range of paper ephemera, photographs, swords, and...