Almost as soon as the fighting began, soldiers in the Civil War began memorializing their fallen comrades…
Many American Indian people saw the Civil War as an opportunity for men’s military service to foster…
The Civil War affected American musical life at every level. Music affected the war as well. Virtuosos…
African American soldiers fighting in the Civil War mattered because their service advanced a broader…
On November 29, 1864, approximately 700 federal troops, commanded by Colonel John Milton Chivington,…
In both the North and South women created support groups generally called Soldiers’ Aid Societies or…
The Civil War is a central focus of American history and American historical scholarship, and yet our…
...there was no way to tell that an enemy unit was in close proximity. Heat was as devastating to Civil…
The Hampton Roads Peace Conference culminated in a meeting between President Lincoln and Secretary of…
Washington, DC, was the most strategic and vulnerable city in the Union during the Civil War. Sandwiched…
More so than infantrymen, Civil War cavalrymen displayed the nineteenth-century values of glamor, adventure,…
The Confederate and Union War Department Ordnance Bureaus were responsible for supplying their respective…
While military reenacting is popular in many countries and covering many wars, Civil War Reenacting has…
Bloody Bill Anderson was a prominent Confederate guerrilla chieftain in the conflict that engulfed Missouri…
...available in the National Archives and through on-line services like Fold3. Another source is Civil…
Johnny Reb—in popular culture, as well as the serious study of the Civil War—is the symbolic representation…
It is important to examine the nature and effects of wounds since one-third of Civil War deaths resulted…
Even as the Civil War raged, soldiers began erecting monuments where they fought and buried the dead.…
In a war in which more than 250,000 participants were underage children and youth, the history of the…
By early June 1861, Union forces under Major General Benjamin G. Butler had occupied the colonial town…
At Shiloh the 13th Louisiana Infantry Battalion stopped their advance to loot the Sutlers’ stores in…
It was the responsibility of the Federal government’s Subsistence Department to ensure that Union soldiers…
The Virginia Secession Convention had voted against secession on April 4, 1861, however, with the Confederate…
The Civil War was a conflict that pitted an industrializing, free labor North against a rural, slaveholding…
The fighting stopped at the Battle of Palmito Ranch, near Brownsville, Texas, on May 13, 1865, but before…
Mary Chesnut was a diarist whose writings were never published during her lifetime, but whose “diary”…
Many of the men and boys who enlisted in either army, particularly in the early stages of the war, did…
A variety of diseases afflicting Civil War soldiers caused significantly more casualties than battle.
Soldiers of the press - correspondents, photographers, and artists- recorded the Civil War in print and…
Civil War soldiers’ diaries and letters | Sullivan Ballou | Library of Congress | Huntington Library…
Following his May 1863 victory at the Battle of Chancellorsville, Confederate General Robert E. Lee invaded…
The Civil War saw significant developments in the treatment of wounded soldiers on and behind the battlefield.
The experience of widows of civil war soldiers.
In the immediate aftermath of the Civil War, Ladies Memorial Associations (LMA’s) formed throughout the…
The most famous African American regiment of the Civil War was the Massachusetts 54th, renowned for its…
Confederates created Fort Pillow, starting in the summer of 1861, on a high bluff above the Mississippi…
The Civil War changed the lives of civilians as well as those of soldiers.
Contrary to common assumption, the American Civil War did not come to a screeching halt after General…
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. may not have been one of the Civil War's most memorable soldiers, but he became…