Chamberlain and Wise: Enemies to the End
The Maine man's attempts at reconciliation were met with the Virginian's everlasting bitterness
Blundering Underlings Betrayed Burnside at Fredericksburg
Plenty of blame to go around for the defeat that cost the Union army 13,000 casualties
Grant at Breakneck Speed
The new mini-series takes a quick look at the Union general’s long road to success
‘For the Quality of Fighting Material, the World Is Our Judge’
An Iron Brigade captain recounts his regiment's epic Gettysburg fight
Morse’s Partner Argued He Invented Famous Code—to No A-Vail
Stephen Vail came up with dots and dashes, but Patent Office gave credit to Morse, the better known inventor
For the Lack of Horses, the War Was Nearly Lost
Union cavalry's fate hung on the health of its four-legged warriors
When the Soldier’s Toughest Battle Was Against Boredom
'I would rather go there and run the chances of being Shot than Stay here all Summer.'
Civil War Circuses Beloved by Blue and Gray Audiences
Soldiers and civilians flocked to see the freakish and fantastic
George Caleb Bingham: Missouri’s Painter of Populism
When his home state was a political borderland, artist's most famous works celebrated frontier democracy
McClellan: Did He Have the ‘Slows’ or a Supply Crisis?
Though most historians call him a crybaby, documents show Washington deliberately withheld needed matériel
Schuyler Hamilton, Scion of American Heroes, Is a Civil War ‘What If’
Alexander Hamilton's grandson was born to be a great general, but illness intervened
For Your Civil War Buff’s Bucket List: Centralia, Mo.
When history travel becomes a reality, visit the small town where the border war got seriously ugly
Online Exclusive: How Collectivism Nearly Sunk Early Colonies
Only when settlers instituted private property rights did the New World thrive
Explore Antietam: A Bucolic Setting for a Bloody Day
A few of our favorite locations on the war's most gory single-day battlefield
How Civil War Weather Forecasting Changed Future Conflicts
Surgeons kept temperature, pressure, wind speed, and humidity records—but they didn't know what to do with the data
Freeda Hartzell: That Other ‘Champion Rifle Shot of the World’
Among those to follow in Annie Oakley's footsteps was trick-shooting prodigy Freeda Hartzell.
