On November 29, 1864, approximately 700 federal troops, commanded by Colonel John Milton Chivington,…
In the sixth of the eight battles of The Seven Days Lee pursued McClellan but failed to prevent his retreat…
On December 20, 1860, the South Carolina convention unanimously adopted an ordinance of secession, the…
Sectionalism is the idea that individual communities of people, sharing a set of cultural, economic and…
Raphael Semmes took his swift commerce raider CSS Alabama on a 22 month rampage that captured 65 and…
The Seven Days Battles ended McClellan's Peninsula Campaign in 1862.
Stonewall Jackson's campaign in the Shenandoah Valley in 1862.
Throughout much of the summer of 1864 Lieutenant General Jubal Anderson Early’s Confederate army had…
Biography of William Tecumseh Sherman
In November 1864, after capturing Atlanta, Sherman cut a swath through Georgia to Savanah, then commenced…
"The South never smiled again after Shiloh."
Confederate Brigadier General Henry Sibley secured permission from Confederate President Jefferson Davis…
Biography of Major General Daniel E. Sickles.
For a century after emancipation, historians of U.S. slavery relied almost exclusively on sources written…
The South's Peculiar Institution
Born into slavery in 1839 in Beaufort, South Carolina, Robert Smalls seized his and his family’s freedom…
Soldiers of the press - correspondents, photographers, and artists- recorded the Civil War in print and…
Between 1861 and 81865, the South was torn apart by a violent inner civil war, as significant to the…
The second major engagement in Grant's Overland Campaign against Lee May 5-June 24, 1864.
From 1791(Vermont) to 1861 (Kansas) the United States added twenty-one states to the original thirteen.…
Numeric analysis remains one of the sharpest tools within the workshop of social science for interpreting…
Kate Stone lived most of her early life at Brokenburn, the family’s plantation in Louisiana about 30…
Stoneman's raid across 6 Confederate states in March - May 1865
After the Battle of Perryville, Kentucky in October 1862, Confederate General Braxton Bragg retreated…
Sixteen year old Confederate soldier J. Triplett at Winchester VA. He served in the Stonewall Brigade…
Union and Confederate Strategies
The opening shot of the Civil War was fired on Fort Sumter, 4:30 a.m. April 12, 1861.
Contrary to common assumption, the American Civil War did not come to a screeching halt after General…
At Shiloh the 13th Louisiana Infantry Battalion stopped their advance to loot the Sutlers’ stores in…
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In the Civil War, both the United States of America and the Confederate States of America were confronted…
