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…
The Jim Crow system of segregation adopted by the states of the U.S. Southeast was devised in an attempt…
Kate Stone lived most of her early life at Brokenburn, the family’s plantation in Louisiana about 30…
In early May, 1864, Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant launched a campaign to crush General Robert E.…
Winchester Virginia was the epicenter of trade and transportation for the lower Shenandoah Valley and…
For nearly six years the site described by Thomas Jefferson as “one of the most stupendous in nature”…
On May 19 and 20, 1856 Senator Charles Sumner delivered his “Crime against Kansas” speech in the U.S.…
A communication revolution saw the movement of messages across the continent in ten days by Wagon train…
The contest for the Mississippi River and its tributaries involved specialized classes of war vessels…
At Shiloh the 13th Louisiana Infantry Battalion stopped their advance to loot the Sutlers’ stores in…
The Confederate and Union War Department Ordnance Bureaus were responsible for supplying their respective…
The fighting stopped at the Battle of Palmito Ranch, near Brownsville, Texas, on May 13, 1865, but before…
Born into slavery in 1839 in Beaufort, South Carolina, Robert Smalls seized his and his family’s freedom…
Sectionalism is the idea that individual communities of people, sharing a set of cultural, economic and…
After a Confederate Provisional Constitution was drafted in early 1861, the Confederate Permanent Constitution…
By early June 1861, Union forces under Major General Benjamin G. Butler had occupied the colonial town…
Lee had battled Grant throughout the spring of 1864 in the Overland Campaign. Able to thwart Grant’s…