Date/Time
Date(s) - 05/09/2026
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Location
Andrew Carnegie Free Library & Music Hall
Categories
Author and historian David A. Welker discusses an important part of the American Civil War called the Veteran Reserve Corps (VRC).
The United States experienced a bloody and decisive civil war from 1861 to 1865. The enslavement of forcibly immigrated Africans was the root cause with branches touching on religion, economics, race, power and the relationship between the individual states and the federal government. Pro-slavery states ceded and formed a confederacy while remaining states are referred to as the Union. Pittsburgh provided a significant source of personnel, war equipment, armament, ammunition and supplies to the Union Army.
Originally called the Invalid Corps, the VRC allow partially disabled soldiers to perform light duty, freeing non-disabled soldiers to serve on the front lines.
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