short battles and long periods of inactivity in between, soldiers always did their best to pursue relaxing undertakings. One widely popular pursuit involved fishing in local rivers
Put Up or Shut Up
A Man Of ‘Latent Power’
Passengers riding the Orange & Alexandria Railroad in early 1864 witnessed a bleak landscape disfigured by nearly three years of war. “Dilapidated, fenceless, and trodden with War Virginia is,” Walt Whitman recorded on a trip from Washington, D.C., t
