This section contains selected memoirs, essays and articles that were published in the years after the Civil War, all of which touch on the war and how it was remembered in Franklin. Some of these were first-hand accounts, written by participants in the war. Others were written by relatives, children, and friends of those who had lived through the war.

This section contains images and discussion of how the Civil War was remembered in popular culture in Franklin County. The burning of Chambersburg dominated physical memorials and representations of the war in county, although unflattering images of African Americans also became common in local culture in the decades after the war. This section surveys these images and monuments to the war's memory in Franklin, providing context for their development in the county.