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…
In both the North and South women created support groups generally called Soldiers’ Aid Societies or…
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 Civil War is a central focus of American history and American historical scholarship, and yet our…
The Medal of Honor, created during the Civil War, symbolizes the highest military valor in the United…
...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…
Throughout the Civil War, both the Union and Confederate militaries drew leadership from common education,…
The Confederate and Union War Department Ordnance Bureaus were responsible for supplying their respective…
More so than infantrymen, Civil War cavalrymen displayed the nineteenth-century values of glamor, adventure,…
While military reenacting is popular in many countries and covering many wars, Civil War Reenacting has…
The vast majority of Civil War soldiers’ military service was spent in army encampments waging a daily…
For good or ill, no Union military commander except Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant had a greater…
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…
At the onset of the Civil War, neither the Union nor the Confederacy had a provision for military nurses.…
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…
On arrival to take command of the Army of Virginia on June 26, 1862 Major General John Pope uttered his…
By the end of May 1865 after the disintegration of the Confederacy it was decided that the union troops…
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…
The original Army of the Ohio consisted of all Federal forces in Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Tennessee,…
A variety of diseases afflicting Civil War soldiers caused significantly more casualties than battle.
In the immediate aftermath of the Civil War, Ladies Memorial Associations (LMA’s) formed throughout the…
Civil War soldiers’ diaries and letters | Sullivan Ballou | Library of Congress | Huntington Library…
The experience of widows of civil war soldiers.
Following his May 1863 victory at the Battle of Chancellorsville, Confederate General Robert E. Lee invaded…
Soldiers of the press - correspondents, photographers, and artists- recorded the Civil War in print and…
The Civil War saw significant developments in the treatment of wounded soldiers on and behind the battlefield.
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…
