The failed Kilpatrick Dahlgren Raid, February 28 – March 3, 1864, led by Union Cavalry officers Major…
Civil War political generals illustrate the applicability of von Clausewitz’s description of war as a…
Civil War Memory has been contested since the guns fell silent in 1865, partly because issues related…
For good or ill, no Union military commander except Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant had a greater…
In late 1861, it was unclear if Kentucky would remain with the Union or join the fledgling Confederacy.…
When the Civil War began America was an overwhelmingly rural society, but its growing cities mattered…
Stonewall Jackson’s Army of the Valley had reached the town of Port Republic at the confluence of the…
The vast majority of Civil War soldiers’ military service was spent in army encampments waging a daily…
Throughout the Civil War, both the Union and Confederate militaries drew leadership from common education,…
Published in 1862, Alleghania described Appalachia (a term that came into common usage later in the 19th…
Perhaps because of the ongoing relevance of the issues raised in and addressed by the American Civil…
While historians have viewed Abraham Lincoln’s cabinet as important for understanding wartime politics,…
A Confederate plan to reinforce beleaguered Confederate forces under Lieutenant General John Bell Hood…
In the U.S. Civil War, the Union Army of the Potomac and Confederate Army of Northern Virginia were the…
Reconstruction, both a time period after the War and a process of recovery, was a time of fear and paranoia.…
In the Civil War, both the United States of America and the Confederate States of America were confronted…
The Border States were critical to the Union war effort. “I think to lose Kentucky is nearly the same…
The Medal of Honor, created during the Civil War, symbolizes the highest military valor in the United…
The original Army of the Ohio consisted of all Federal forces in Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Tennessee,…
On arrival to take command of the Army of Virginia on June 26, 1862 Major General John Pope uttered his…
