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The Battle of Malvern Hill

After his victory at Malvern Hill McClellan chose to retreat, ending The Seven Days Battles and the Peninsula…

Manifest Destiny | Western Migration | Texas Annexation 1845 | Mexican Cession 1848 | John L. O’Sullivan…

Biography of Union General George Gordon Meade

Mechanicsville was the first major engagement of the Seven Day's Battles and the first initiated by Robert…

Even as the Civil War raged, soldiers began erecting monuments where they fought and buried the dead.…

Territories obtained in the Mexican American War of 1848 caused further sectional strife over the expansion…

Until Edwin C. Fishel’s The Secret War for the Union was published in1996 the history of Civil War military…

The Mine Run Campaign was Meade's last and failed attempt in 1863 to destroy Lee's Army of Northern Virginia…

The Missouri Compromise settled the question of slavery in that state but was a harbinger of issues arising…

The struggle for Missouri was one of the most prolonged and violent conflicts of nineteenth-century America,…

The Battle of Mobile Bay on August 5, 1864 pitted two powerful naval forces against each other for control…

The Civil War affected American musical life at every level. Music affected the war as well. Virtuosos…

Throughout the Civil War, both the Union and Confederate militaries drew leadership from common education,…

Civil War Memory has been contested since the guns fell silent in 1865, partly because issues related…

For good or ill, no Union military commander except Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant had a greater…

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In late 1861, it was unclear if Kentucky would remain with the Union or join the fledgling Confederacy.…

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The Naval Battle of Memphis took place on June 6, 1862 witnessed by the city’s citizens crowded on the…

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