The military reconnaissance balloon was an important innovation during the Civil War.
While many women offered volunteer aid to the poorly-supplied Union and Confederate armies, Clara Barton…
The Battle of Ball’s Bluff, October 21, 1861, was a simple accident that resulted from a faulty report…
The Bermuda Hundred Campaign was one of three campaigns launched to support Grant's 1864 Overland Campaign…
Between the lines trading | Trading between the lines | Benjamin Butler | Union blockade of the Confederacy…
By early June 1861, Union forces under Major General Benjamin G. Butler had occupied the colonial town…
The soldiers and their experiences in the Union armies
The Union Naval blockade isolated the Confederacy and kept it from establishing a full-scale war economy.
A key component of the Republican Party’s ideology was a desire to expand the power and scope of the…
In a war in which more than 250,000 participants were underage children and youth, the history of the…
Mathew Brady (circa 1823-1896) is arguably one of the most important American photographers of the nineteenth…
Brandy Station is best understood when viewed as the opening combat action concurrent with the Confederate…
Biography of Confederate General Braxton Bragg
Biography of John C. Breckinridge
While Grant led the war effort from the eastern theater, he put his trust in his close friend Major General…
In October 1863 Lee launched a new offensive against Meade and the Army of the Potomac culminating in…
On May 19 and 20, 1856 Senator Charles Sumner delivered his “Crime against Kansas” speech in the U.S.…
James Buchanan, 15th President 1857-1861, was unable to provide the leadership to resolve the crisis…
After Bull Run both sides became determined not to return to major fighting until they had raised much…
In late August 1862, Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia faced Pope’s thirty-two thousand-man Army of Virginia…
Almost as soon as the fighting began, soldiers in the Civil War began memorializing their fallen comrades…
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