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How Volunteer Soldiers Blocked Robert E. Lee — By Burning the World’s Longest Covered Bridge

by Jon Guttman and Scott L. Mingus Sr.5/12/20225/12/2022

A brief but sharp skirmish at Wrightsville marked the easternmost Confederate advance in Pennsylvania during the Gettysburg Campaign.

Brooks attacks Sumner in the Senate chamber

Are We on the Eve of Another Civil War?

by Gary W. Gallagher5/11/20225/10/2022

Why Ulysses S. Grant May Receive a Promotion — Nearly 140 Years After He Died

by Zita Ballinger Fletcher5/6/20225/6/2022

The Largest Cavalry Battle Site of the Civil War Will Soon Be a Virginia State Park

by Sarah Richardson5/4/20225/5/2022

‘George Armstrong Custer’ Book Review: Another Look at the Imperfect ‘Boy General’

by HistoryNet staff5/2/20225/4/2022

5 Famous Body Parts From History That You Can Visit

by HistoryNet Staff4/28/20225/9/2022

This Union Soldier’s Death Shocked the North and Made Lincoln Cry

by Meg Groeling4/28/20225/11/2022

Book Review: ‘Their Maryland’ Asks What We Get Wrong About the Army of Northern Virginia

by Gordon Berg4/27/20225/9/2022

Confederates and Comancheros book jacket

‘Confederates and Comancheros’ Book Review: The Civil War Was a Tangled Mess Out West

by HistoryNet staff4/27/20225/4/2022

An Ohio English Teacher Went to Fight in the Civil War and Got His First True Taste of Battle

by James Jewell4/14/20224/24/2022