...General George Gordon Meade. By the end of June both armies were within 30 miles of the road hub at…
...It served between autumn 1862 and spring 1865, fighting at Shepherdstown Ford, Fredericksburg, Gettysburg,…
...cavalry began to be used in brigades and divisions, commanded by cavalry generals. At Brandy Station,…
The story behind the Gettysburg Address.
...large marble obelisk where he fell mortally wounded. In August 1863, just weeks after the battle of…
Regimental histories were—and still are—a popular subgenre of Civil War history. They catalog a regiment’s…
Many of the men and boys who enlisted in either army, particularly in the early stages of the war, did…
...Americans was erected at Vicksburg in 2004. By the dedication of the Eternal Light Peace Memorial…
...Burnside carbines and the Henry (which became the Winchester ’73) rifle. The July 1863 Battle of Gettysburg…
...a day when Union armies scored key victories in three different locations. One of those was at Gettysburg,…
...varying categories. Mega events involve thousands of reenactors. The largest event was the 135th Gettysburg…
...Blue and the Gray (1982), North and South (1985, 1986, 1994), Glory (1989), The Civil War (1990),…
...typhoid fever early in 1862. Lincoln himself nearly died from smallpox in the weeks that followed…
...played a prominent role in battles as far flung as Chickamauga, Chattanooga, the Peninsula Campaign,…
...specialized training. Alexander continued to excel with brilliant performances at Chancellorsville,…
...covert actions, and even tapped into the Signal and Secret Service Bureau’s Secret Line before the…
...first to show Civil War dead in a public space. Brady photographed the aftermath of the Battle of…
...the Union cavalry. Subsequent fighting later that summer at Brandy Station, Aldie, Upperville and…
Johnny Reb—in popular culture, as well as the serious study of the Civil War—is the symbolic representation…
The Iron Brigade was one of the most celebrated military organizations of the American Civil War.
...destroyed, this time by the Federals to prevent the Army of Northern Virginia, retreating after Gettysburg,…
Biography of Major General Winfield Scott Hancock, hero of Gettysburg.
...Chancellorsville, won at the cost of the death of Stonewall Jackson, led to invasion of Pennsylvania…
...Cushman Newhall, a Federal staff officer during the Battle of Brandy Station, boldly asserted, "The…
...Days Battles | Second Manassas |Second Bull Run | Antietam | Fredericksburg | Chancellorsville | Gettysburg…