While often recognized as a leading advocate for the Lost Cause during Reconstruction and having a storied…
Economic factors played a large role in bringing on the Civil War and in determining who won it.
On both sides two thirds of leaders with the rank of major general or higher came from the old regular…
The voters in 1860 decisively chose to contain slavery, saying that the institution should not expand…
The election of 1864 was the first successful democratic election ever conducted during a civil war.
The Emancipation Proclamation
A history of the engineers of both sides throughout the Civil War
The natural and built environment directly shaped the course and outcome of the Civil War. Disease, weather,…
Espionage and intelligence gathering influenced the outcome of specific battles but did not have a decisive…
Many of the men and boys who enlisted in either army, particularly in the early stages of the war, did…
