Military Road in Worcester, off Salisbury Street, not far from Park Avenue, takes its name from the school created by Worcester educator Caleb B. Metcalf. Highland Military Academy opened on Oct. 5, ...

Gen. Rufus Saxton wrote that he bore “witness to the value of her services… She was employed in the Hospitals and as a spy [and] made many a raid inside the enemy’s lines displaying remarkable courage ...

The Battle of Gettysburg, too, was explicitly a family affair. Many families sent soldiers who fought on opposite sides, ...