Both dismemberment during battle and decay on the battlefield during the often-lengthy interval between death and recovery challenged Civil War-era Americans’ ideas about the “good death.” ...

Yohn and is engraved on the butt and backstrap to read “Presented to D.S. Yohn 1861 by His Bro W.Y.” A rare Civil War-era revolver is ... His much older half-brother, William Yohn, must ...