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The Abolitionist Movement

Beginning with isolated, individual critics of slavery, antislavery rhetoric gained momentum in the mid-eighteenth…

African American soldiers fighting in the Civil War mattered because their service advanced a broader…

On Sunday, June 19, 1864 the storied career of the CSS Alabama ended as she sank in the English Channel…

Porter Alexander played an active role at First Bull Run and took part in the surrender at Appomattox.…

Bloody Bill Anderson was a prominent Confederate guerrilla chieftain in the conflict that engulfed Missouri…

An understanding of the roughly four decades preceding the start of the Civil War, the Antebellum Period,…

Lee's first invasion of the North in September 1862 ended with the Battle of Antietam.

Lee's surrender at Appomattox Courthouse on April 9, 1865 is generally regarded as marking the end of…

Arming the Confederacy | Virginia’s mineral contribution to the Confederate war effort | Niter | Saltpeter…

Union Major General William S. Rosecrans was the first commander of the Army of the Cumberland when it…

The Army of Northern Virginia, the best known and most successful of the Confederate armies, is forever…

The original Army of the Ohio consisted of all Federal forces in Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Tennessee,…

The Army of the Potomac deserves a claim as the best army of the Civil War because it accomplished the…

It was in the Civil War that artillery first hinted at its ultimate power on the modern battlefield.

In the U.S. Civil War, the Union Army of the Potomac and Confederate Army of Northern Virginia were the…

The Atlanta Campaign is generally divided into two parts—Sherman vs Johnston and Sherman vs Hood. Grant…

When General John Bell Hood took command of the Confederate Army of Tennessee on July 18, 1864, relieving…

A history of Atlanta's role in the Civil War

Published in 1862, Alleghania described Appalachia (a term that came into common usage later in the 19th…

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