#historical

The room into which the lad had been ushered into was obviously one in which doctors spent their leisure time. Two narrow cots and sparse furnishings indicated that perhaps little to no time was spent to relax and catch a few hours-worth of sleep. Heavy footsteps were heard coming down the hallwa...

Cole Adams, had an impeccable Revolutionary lineage, and was a surgeon in the 54th Massachusetts. He had not been in his home state since Fort Sumpter, and right now he saw no possibility of him seeing his home in the foreseeable future either. "These damn seceshers don't know when they are licke...

The heavily laden riverboat lazily picked a path through a bevy of Union warships, while two hundred yards away the main body of the fleet laid anchored midstream, apart from the city and its sometimes hostile inhabitants. A brownish haze hung over the city and the humid air pressed the swelterin...