The original Army of the Ohio consisted of all Federal forces in Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Tennessee,…
...field armies, the Union high command achieved victory in April 1865 with the surrender of the Confederate…
By early June 1861, Union forces under Major General Benjamin G. Butler had occupied the colonial town…
The Battle of Five Forks marked the largest single engagement in the last offensive (March 29 to April…
A Confederate plan to reinforce beleaguered Confederate forces under Lieutenant General John Bell Hood…
...Army of the Potomac. Pressure mounted on McClellan to undertake active operations against the Confederate…
Confederate veteran groups began forming as early as 1865. The premier Confederate veterans’ organization,…
In late 1861, it was unclear if Kentucky would remain with the Union or join the fledgling Confederacy.…
...commander of the Army of the Cumberland when it was formed on October 24, 1862. The army defeated…
The Border States were critical to the Union war effort. “I think to lose Kentucky is nearly the same…
Although time and the shifting currents of the Mississippi River have long ago demolished Island No.…
The fighting stopped at the Battle of Palmito Ranch, near Brownsville, Texas, on May 13, 1865, but before…
...along the Atlantic coast closed several ports previously used by blockade runners to bring the Confederate…
The Union forces posed a threat across Virginia in three fronts in the summer of 1862. The Army of the…
Throughout much of the summer of 1864 Lieutenant General Jubal Anderson Early’s Confederate army had…
In late August 1862, Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia faced Pope’s thirty-two thousand-man Army of Virginia…
On arrival to take command of the Army of Virginia on June 26, 1862 Major General John Pope uttered his…
Major General Henry Halleck took command of the western armies following the Union victory at Shiloh…
After their disastrous defeat at the Battle of Chickamauga on September 19-20, 1863, the surviving troops…
The Atlanta Campaign is generally divided into two parts—Sherman vs Johnston and Sherman vs Hood. Grant…
...Maryland or against Washington D.C. In the spring of 1862 General Stonewall Jackson’s small Confederate…
In the U.S. Civil War, the Union Army of the Potomac and Confederate Army of Northern Virginia were the…
...geographic distribution, including one unit overseas. Some units, in fact, never surrendered at all.…
Stonewall Jackson’s Army of the Valley had reached the town of Port Republic at the confluence of the…
The contest for the Mississippi River and its tributaries involved specialized classes of war vessels…
...the last major actions out west playing a critical role in the destruction of John Bell Hood’s Confederate…
For nearly six years the site described by Thomas Jefferson as “one of the most stupendous in nature”…
McClellan’s slowness in launching the Peninsula Campaign, which began with the departure of the Federal…
The vast majority of Civil War soldiers’ military service was spent in army encampments waging a daily…
...had an international impact in that it demonstrated to European nations and England that the Confederate…
In May 1861 Federal forces under Major General George B. McClellan invaded western Virginia to protect…
The Hampton Roads Peace Conference culminated in a meeting between President Lincoln and Secretary of…
Lee had battled Grant throughout the spring of 1864 in the Overland Campaign. Able to thwart Grant’s…
Following his May 1863 victory at the Battle of Chancellorsville, Confederate General Robert E. Lee invaded…
Stuart’s Chambersburg Raid, October 9 – 12, 1862 was one of the final nails in the coffin for the military…
When General John Bell Hood took command of the Confederate Army of Tennessee on July 18, 1864, relieving…
Confederate General Joseph Eggleston Johnston (1807-1891) was the highest ranking United States officer…
...depended on the time period. With the help of its raiding activities, early in the conflict, the Confederate…
...outcome ensured federal control of the Mississippi River. General Theophilus Hunter Holmes led the…
While Grant led the war effort from the eastern theater, he put his trust in his close friend Major General…
The Confederate and Union War Department Ordnance Bureaus were responsible for supplying their respective…
In early May, 1864, Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant launched a campaign to crush General Robert E.…
The story of the Federal cavalry during the Civil War is not only the story of the development of raw…
The engagement at Parkers Crossroads, fought on December 31, 1862, was a pivotal encounter during a raid…
Until Edwin C. Fishel’s The Secret War for the Union was published in1996 the history of Civil War military…
At the time of the Civil War, cotton had become the most valuable crop of the South and comprised 59%…
While Grant pressed Lee in the Overland Campaign, he sent Major General David Hunter to threaten the…
The security of an army depended on its pickets – the sentinels who provided early warning of infiltration…
After the Battle of Perryville, Kentucky in October 1862, Confederate General Braxton Bragg retreated…
As the Army of Northern Virginia began to dig in around Petersburg in June 1864, Lee sent his Second…
The Medal of Honor, created during the Civil War, symbolizes the highest military valor in the United…
The Civil War was a conflict that pitted an industrializing, free labor North against a rural, slaveholding…
As part of his grand strategy for defeating the Confederacy, Major General George Brinton McClellan,…
On February 5, 1863, ten days after assuming command of the Army of the Potomac, Major General Joseph…
Washington, DC, was the most strategic and vulnerable city in the Union during the Civil War. Sandwiched…
Confederate troops were rushed by rail to confront the Union army led by Brigadier General Irwin McDowell…
...journal captured views typical of her time and class. With her brothers and uncle serving in the Confederate…
The Port Royal Experiment began when Union naval forces captured Port Royal and the surrounding South…
The Army of Northern Virginia, the best known and most successful of the Confederate armies, is forever…
The Civil War affected American musical life at every level. Music affected the war as well. Virtuosos…
When the Civil War began America was an overwhelmingly rural society, but its growing cities mattered…
While many women offered volunteer aid to the poorly-supplied Union and Confederate armies, Clara Barton…
It has been said that Bedford Forrest was the most effective cavalry commander produced by the Civil…
In a war in which more than 250,000 participants were underage children and youth, the history of the…
At 2:00 p.m. on July 3, 1863 following a heavy artillery barrage, approximately 11,500 Confederates under…
The 20th Maine Volunteer Infantry was a three-year regiment that fought with the Army of the Potomac.…
At Shiloh the 13th Louisiana Infantry Battalion stopped their advance to loot the Sutlers’ stores in…
Born into slavery in 1839 in Beaufort, South Carolina, Robert Smalls seized his and his family’s freedom…
In October 1863 Lee launched a new offensive against Meade and the Army of the Potomac culminating in…
On November 29, 1864, approximately 700 federal troops, commanded by Colonel John Milton Chivington,…
The wrenching and unexpected events of the mid-nineteenth century led Jacob Dolson Cox from a tranquil…
Mechanicsville was the first major engagement of the Seven Day's Battles and the first initiated by Robert…
Porter Alexander played an active role at First Bull Run and took part in the surrender at Appomattox.…
After the Battle of Perryville in October 1862 the Confederate Army the Mississippi retreated from Kentucky.
