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David Glasgow Farragut

Biography of David Glasgow Farragut, America's First Admiral

The Civil War in Film

The Civil War is a central focus of American history and American historical scholarship, and yet our…

Financing the Civil War

Officials in both the USA and CSA were remarkably successful in finding sufficient financial resources…

The Fire-Eaters

Fire-eaters were radical southern secessionists who had long been committed to the dissolution of the…

The Battle of Five Forks

The Battle of Five Forks marked the largest single engagement in the last offensive (March 29 to April…

The Confederate Flag

The Confederate Flag: de Facto Symbol of the Confederacy.

Nathan Bedford Forrest

It has been said that Bedford Forrest was the most effective cavalry commander produced by the Civil…

Rebel Gibraltar: Fort Fisher and Wilmington, C.S.A.

Fort Fisher | Wilmington NC | First Battle of Fort Fisher | Second Battle of Fort Fisher | Colonel William…

Fort Henry-Fort Donelson Campaign

Grant's 1862 Campaign to capture the Tennessee and Cumberland River forts and thereby secure Nashville…

Fort Pillow

Confederates created Fort Pillow, starting in the summer of 1861, on a high bluff above the Mississippi…

Eyewitness to the Apocalypse: The Battle of Franklin, November 30, 1864

The costly, disastrous Battle of Franklin was the South's Last Hurrah in the western theater.

The Battle of Fredericksburg

The brilliant Confederate victory at Fredericksburg left both sides back where they started, failing…

Fugitive Slave Act of 1850

No issue rankled antebellum Americans more painfully or persistently than the fugitive slave problem.…

Fortifications

Symbolically the Civil War began and ended at fortifications, with the April 1861 shelling of Fort Sumter…

Flags in the Civil War

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The Capture of Fort Pulaski

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The Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands

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