University of Chicago sociologist John Clegg is using the Union Army records of African-American men like Abram Garvin to learn about self-emancipation.
A soldier’s diary preserves the only known text of an Emory Upton speech
Before it lent its name to the April 6-7, 1862, battle, Shiloh Church was the center of a community.
Tactical success in combat rests upon a foundation of deeply human factors, and the battles of the Civil War were no exception.
To understand Clark “Bud” Hall’s passion for Brandy Station, where the war’s biggest cavalry battle was fought, you must explore his battlefield with him.
The Confederacy failed to take advantage of railroad technology
For three years, Union and Confederate soldiers pounded through the heart of Winchester, Va.
War Stuff: The Struggle for Human and Environmental Resources in the American Civil War by Joan E. Cashin explores the conduct of both Union and Confederate armies and the impact on local civilians.
An Iron Brigade soldier recounts his baptism of fire at the battles of Brawner’s Farm and Second Bull Run
Union veterans had no doubt about Gettysburg’s significance as a turning point in the conflict
Thomas Van Winkle, president of the board of directors for the Central Virginia Battlefields Trust, has been working for battlefield preservation since 1996.
Edmund Ruffin’s 1860 book predicted a Civil War from which the South emerged triumphant
Should campaigns against Native Americans and Confederates be viewed as one war or two?
A Maryland family helped nurse wounded Rutherford B. Hayes.
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