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,…
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…
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…
While military reenacting is popular in many countries and covering many wars, Civil War Reenacting has…
Tariffs are a tax levied on imported goods and were the dominant source of the federal government’s revenue…
From 1869 to 1901, five U.S. Presidents were Civil War veterans: U.S. Grant, Rutherford B. Hayes, James…
Symbolically the Civil War began and ended at fortifications, with the April 1861 shelling of Fort Sumter…
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…
In the U.S. Civil War, the Union Army of the Potomac and Confederate Army of Northern Virginia were the…
For nearly six years the site described by Thomas Jefferson as “one of the most stupendous in nature”…
The Virginia Secession Convention had voted against secession on April 4, 1861, however, with the Confederate…
The 20th Maine Volunteer Infantry was a three-year regiment that fought with the Army of the Potomac.…
The natural and built environment directly shaped the course and outcome of the Civil War. Disease, weather,…
Confederate troops were rushed by rail to confront the Union army led by Brigadier General Irwin McDowell…
Confederate veteran groups began forming as early as 1865. The premier Confederate veterans’ organization,…
The original Army of the Ohio consisted of all Federal forces in Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Tennessee,…
By the end of May 1865 after the disintegration of the Confederacy it was decided that the union troops…
It has been said that Bedford Forrest was the most effective cavalry commander produced by the Civil…
Peninsula Campaign | General George B. McClellan | General Robert E. Lee | General John B. Magruder |…
The Battle of Mobile Bay on August 5, 1864 pitted two powerful naval forces against each other for control…
The Battle of Gaines' Mill , one of the most ferocious of the Civil War, was the key battle of the Seven…
Espionage and intelligence gathering influenced the outcome of specific battles but did not have a decisive…
