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…
Symbolically the Civil War began and ended at fortifications, with the April 1861 shelling of Fort Sumter…
The engagement at Parkers Crossroads, fought on December 31, 1862, was a pivotal encounter during a raid…
When men first rushed to volunteer in the United States and Confederate armies, a private’s wage was…
At the onset of the Civil War, neither the Union nor the Confederacy had a provision for military nurses.…
By the end of May 1865 after the disintegration of the Confederacy it was decided that the union troops…
In the wake of the US Civil War, approximately ten thousand Confederates expats left the geographic space…
On February 5, 1863, ten days after assuming command of the Army of the Potomac, Major General Joseph…
From 1791(Vermont) to 1861 (Kansas) the United States added twenty-one states to the original thirteen.…
McClellan’s slowness in launching the Peninsula Campaign, which began with the departure of the Federal…
It was the responsibility of the Federal government’s Subsistence Department to ensure that Union soldiers…
