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The Battle of Spotsylvania Courthouse

The second major engagement in Grant's Overland Campaign against Lee May 5-June 24, 1864.

Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies

This topic discusses the Official Records and other primary sources on the Civil War.

The Grand Review

By the end of May 1865 after the disintegration of the Confederacy it was decided that the union troops…

The Civil War Era in Southern Appalachia

Published in 1862, Alleghania described Appalachia (a term that came into common usage later in the 19th…

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