Forged in Worcester County: The Founding of a Regiment A Nation Mobilizes: The Spring and Summer of 1861 When Confederate batteries opened fire on Fort Sumter at 4:30 a.m. on April 12, 1861, the United States possessed a standing army of roughly 16,000 soldiers spread across a continent. President Abraham Lincoln faced an immediate crisis, compounded by a stubborn legal constraint: the Militia Act of 1795 limited any presidential call for state militiamen to a maximum of ninety days of...

This narrative of our experience at the 160th Gettysburg reenactment is written in the style of an after action report similar, albeit...

The 15th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment that served from the State of Massachusetts during the...