Born with a silver spoon in his mouth, Phil Kearny died with a single bullet to the spine.
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A View From the North: Union Women’s Wartime Memoirs
Two Northern women kept insightful journals of their Civil War-era experiences.
‘Bonds of War’ Book Review: How War Profiteers Helped the Union Win
The Civil War pushed American finance into a new, more modern phase.
Union Soldier John Munson and His Horse, John Mosby
This image is of John Munson of the 72nd Illinois Mounted Infantry of Col. […]
Union Field Music at Gettysburg
A bugle march at the 1st Minnesota camp at Gettysburg National Military Park in July 2022.
A Closer Look at One of the Union’s First Black Cavalry Units
An interview with John D. Warner Jr., author of “Riders in the Storm.”
Why on Earth Did Hitler Invade the Soviet Union?
Historians have been grappling with that question for decades.
Deep Cut Into Dixie: Inside the Union Raid That Tore the Heart Out of Mississippi
As Benjamin Grierson rampaged through Mississippi in the spring of 1863, a detail of Union troopers embarked on a raid of their own
to keep the Confederates in further disarray.
Fistfights, Heat Exhaustion and Not Enough Taters: What It Was Like at Gettysburg’s 50th Reunion
Aging vets faced a number of challenges at the 1913 reunion.
This Union Soldier’s Death Shocked the North and Made Lincoln Cry
The impact of Elmer Ellsworth’s untimely death in May 1861 had yet to be seen in our nation’s history, a harbinger of four years of horror ahead.