Almost as soon as the fighting began, soldiers in the Civil War began memorializing their fallen comrades…
On November 29, 1864, approximately 700 federal troops, commanded by Colonel John Milton Chivington,…
Weather was one of the biggest factors in the American Civil War. It affected every part of the conflict.…
The Hampton Roads Peace Conference culminated in a meeting between President Lincoln and Secretary of…
Tariffs are a tax levied on imported goods and were the dominant source of the federal government’s revenue…
While military reenacting is popular in many countries and covering many wars, Civil War Reenacting has…
From 1869 to 1901, five U.S. Presidents were Civil War veterans: U.S. Grant, Rutherford B. Hayes, James…
The struggle for Missouri was one of the most prolonged and violent conflicts of nineteenth-century America,…
In a war in which more than 250,000 participants were underage children and youth, the history of the…
African American soldiers fighting in the Civil War mattered because their service advanced a broader…
The wrenching and unexpected events of the mid-nineteenth century led Jacob Dolson Cox from a tranquil…
Johnny Reb—in popular culture, as well as the serious study of the Civil War—is the symbolic representation…
For nearly six years the site described by Thomas Jefferson as “one of the most stupendous in nature”…
The 20th Maine Volunteer Infantry was a three-year regiment that fought with the Army of the Potomac.…
The Virginia Secession Convention had voted against secession on April 4, 1861, however, with the Confederate…
Confederate troops were rushed by rail to confront the Union army led by Brigadier General Irwin McDowell…
The natural and built environment directly shaped the course and outcome of the Civil War. Disease, weather,…
Confederate veteran groups began forming as early as 1865. The premier Confederate veterans’ organization,…
It has been said that Bedford Forrest was the most effective cavalry commander produced by the Civil…
The Battle of Mobile Bay on August 5, 1864 pitted two powerful naval forces against each other for control…
Espionage and intelligence gathering influenced the outcome of specific battles but did not have a decisive…
The Battle of Gaines' Mill , one of the most ferocious of the Civil War, was the key battle of the Seven…