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David Glasgow Farragut

Biography of David Glasgow Farragut, America's First Admiral

The Civil War is a central focus of American history and American historical scholarship, and yet our…

Officials in both the USA and CSA were remarkably successful in finding sufficient financial resources…

Fire-eaters were radical southern secessionists who had long been committed to the dissolution of the…

The Battle of Five Forks marked the largest single engagement in the last offensive (March 29 to April…

The Confederate Flag: de Facto Symbol of the Confederacy.

It has been said that Bedford Forrest was the most effective cavalry commander produced by the Civil…

Fort Fisher | Wilmington NC | First Battle of Fort Fisher | Second Battle of Fort Fisher | Colonel William…

Grant's 1862 Campaign to capture the Tennessee and Cumberland River forts and thereby secure Nashville…

Confederates created Fort Pillow, starting in the summer of 1861, on a high bluff above the Mississippi…

The costly, disastrous Battle of Franklin was the South's Last Hurrah in the western theater.

The brilliant Confederate victory at Fredericksburg left both sides back where they started, failing…

No issue rankled antebellum Americans more painfully or persistently than the fugitive slave problem.…

Symbolically the Civil War began and ended at fortifications, with the April 1861 shelling of Fort Sumter…

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