Explore Life Along the Levee
New Orlean, the Confederacy's largest and most commercially important city, fell to the Union in May 1862
Libbie Custer’s Literary Love Affair With Her Late Husband
For nearly six decades after Little Big Horn, George Custer's widow burnished the general's reputation and wrote movingly of reconciliation with former foes
The War Came Knocking on Spanglers’ Barn Door
Farm at crucial Gettysburg intersection was commandeered as 11th Corps hospital
Civil War Times Book Review: Vicksburg, the Turning Point of the War
Grant learns from his mistakes and finds comrades in command in Porter and Sherman
Crucial Confrontation in Georgia: As Atlanta Fell, Jonesboro Burned
'Oh, the infamous wretches! It makes my blood run cold to witness the devastation that surrounds us!'
The Forgotten Four Hills That Decided the Fight at Gettysburg
Want to see where the battle was won? Visit the high ground on the Union right
Albert Sidney Johnston: Too Little, Too Late to Win the Western War
The general expected to save the Confederate heartland made a series of poor tactical and strategic decisions
The Trick to Maintaining America’s Treasures: Training Skilled Artisans
National Park Service program helps preserve historic structures and monuments
Rambling: Suburban Sprawl Is Destroying the Stones River Battlefield
An Afghan War veteran laments the disappearance of hallowed landscape
Insight: A Historian Explains How Republicans Misjudged the Threat of Secession
David M. Potter's scholarship explains how the North saw Southern rhetoric as 'crying wolf'
How Stonewall Jackson’s Death Site Became a Tourist Attraction
Confederate veterans created shrines to memorialize the general and attract travelers' dollars
America’s Civil War Book Reviews: The Role of Rangers in the Civil War
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Explore the Haunting Remnants of Civil War Prisons
As the conflict went on, conditions for captives became more and more inhumane
The Battle of Orange Court House: Mounted Mayhem in the Streets
Much-maligned Yankee cavalry finally got the best of its Confederate rivals
Field Notes: New Home for Dallas Robert E. Lee Statue
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