INDIANAPOLIS — A rare, defective Civil War gun with Hoosier ties is up for auction this week. Appraisers don't know who used it in the war and won't say who's selling it. Just about the only ...

Read transcripts from the 1865 diary of a Civil War guard. At the 2008 ANTIQUES ROADSHOW event in Wichita, a guest brought his ancestor's fragile diary from 1865 to the Books & Manuscripts table ...

Alves buys the prayer books online or at Civil War shows, which he attends a couple of times a year, usually in Richmond. He estimates he owns about 20 historic prayer books and 15 devotional manuals.