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A Railroad War

Confederate troops were rushed by rail to confront the Union army led by Brigadier General Irwin McDowell…

It was the responsibility of the Federal government’s Subsistence Department to ensure that Union soldiers…

To truly understand the Rebel Yell one has to listen to it. See the resources section for how to do…

While the old flawed way of remembering Reconstruction is gone, it is not clear that there is now a new…

While military reenacting is popular in many countries and covering many wars, Civil War Reenacting has…

Regimental histories were—and still are—a popular subgenre of Civil War history. They catalog a regiment’s…

The Role of Religion in the Civil War

The story of the Republican Party's transformation in its early years shows how a powerful federal government…

The Virginia Secession Convention had voted against secession on April 4, 1861, however, with the Confederate…

Lee had battled Grant throughout the spring of 1864 in the Overland Campaign. Able to thwart Grant’s…

In May 1861 Federal forces under Major General George B. McClellan invaded western Virginia to protect…

Reconstruction, both a time period after the War and a process of recovery, was a time of fear and paranoia.…

The contest for the Mississippi River and its tributaries involved specialized classes of war vessels…

Biography of William Starke Rosecrans

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