Stonewall Jackson’s horse has returned home. Little Sorrel has returned to VMI’s museum after getting a makeover. Last month conservators gave Little Sorrel a bath and repaired his hide. It was the first time he’d received a bath in 140 years. Little Sorrel belonged to Stonewall Jackson. The horse died in 1886, but his hide [...]

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Did Lincoln Free the Slaves?: Interpretation in the Classroom

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Roy Rosenzweig

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Review of Robert K. Krick’s Civil War Weather in Virginia

This review is slated for publication in the Virginia Magazine of History and Biography. On 15 May 1864 Captain John C. Winsmith of the 1st South Carolina Infantry penned a lengthy letter home in which he described the horrific fighting that had taken place in the Wilderness and at Spotsylvania Court House. In the seven [...]

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