The Union attempted to track down rebel guerrilla John Singleton Mosby. It led to a comedy of errors.
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American History is Full of Controversial Drafts. The Union Civil War Draft Was No Exception.
The New York draft riot that burned half the city down.
How Union Veterans Conquered Winchester . . . After the Civil War
After the fall of the Confederacy, these Union veterans made themselves at home in the South.
This Short-Lived Town Fed the Union Pacific Locomotives
In 1869 Mormon pioneer Moses Byrne built six big beehive kilns along the western side of the Union Pacific Railroad. Why?
Tragedy Along the Potomac: Alcohol Fueled a Deadly Interaction Between a Union Soldier and a Maryland Teenager on July 21, 1861
Listen to Civil War Times Editor Dana B. Shoaf discuss the tragic murder of a Maryland teenager by a New Hampshire soldier on The History Things Podcast.
Was This Logistics Genius the Union’s Secret Weapon in the Civil War?
What does it take to feed an army of 100,000 men every day?
Baseball Team Owners Played Dirty to Stop Players’ Unions
Baseball’s Gilded Age labor wars saw players and owners battle furiously.
Bullets Thick as Hail: A Surviving Union Soldier’s Letter About Antietam
A New York Infantryman describes the hard fighting near the Cornfield in this recovered Civil War letter.
The Confederacy Rejected Him—So He Became a Union Hero Instead
Herman Heath served valiantly in the Union cavalry, but his old sympathies came back to haunt him.
Moorefield, West Virginia: Confederate Bastion in the Union State
Federal troops drove Confederate cavalry from these pastoral mountain valleys.