He Was a New Union Lieutenant at Shiloh. The Horrors He Witnessed Left Scars That Never Healed.
A young Union lieutenant and his fellow Ohioans learn the horrors of war on Shiloh’s opening day
They ‘literally ate crow’: How Starving Confederate Troops Made It Home After the Civil War
After Appomattox, General Robert E. Lee's troops began their journeys home
Is Everything We Think We Know About Pickett’s Charge… Wrong?
J.E.B. Stuart’s intentions during Pickett’s Charge at Gettysburg have long been misinterpreted
Meet the U.S. Army’s First Black Surgeon: Alexander Augusta
Alexander Augusta swam forward against waves of racism to become the United State Army's first Black surgeon
At First, Antietam Was Her Summer Job. Now She’s Calling the Shots—and Making Big Changes.
Interpretation of the epic September 17, 1862, battle—deemed the single bloodiest day in American history—is also being revisited
This House & Barn Survived the Battle of South Mountain. Can It Survive Development?
An earnest local preservation group is fighting to save a battlefield landmark in the Maryland village of Burkittsville – the setting for the horror film, The Blair Witch Project
The War in Their Words: The Allegheny Arsenal Explosion
An eyewitness describes the horrible 1862 Allegheny Arsenal explosion
Clement Vallandigham Reexamined: A Review of Lincoln’s Northern Nemesis
At most a footnote figure, he is chiefly remembered as the target of an aggressive federal crackdown on free speech
Think You’re a Gettysburg Fan? Meet the Man Who’s Made It His Life’s Work
A lifelong aficionado of the Civil War, Motts began his career as a battlefield guide at Gettysburg in 1988
Savage Showdown: Cole’s Cavalry Versus Mosby’s Rangers
Partisan Rangers, Cole’s Cavalry spent early 1864 in a bitter struggle for the upper hand in “Mosby’s Confederacy”
How Union General Robert H. Milroy Spent His Life Trying Redeem His Reputation
Until his death, Union General Robert H. Milroy never stopped trying to redeem his reputation, badly scarred in defeat at Second Winchester
How Union Leaders Sought to Exploit Rebel In-Fighting After the Fall of Atlanta
Lincoln, Sherman hoped to leverage government unrest in Richmond and Georgia to secure an early peace deal after Atlanta fell
In His Words: The Exceptional Life of Union Engineer Gilbert Thompson
Union Engineer Gilbert Thompson documented his service with an illustrated diary
America’s Weirdest Confederate Statue Has Been Removed from Nashville
The statue gained national attention in recent years, with comedian John Oliver saying it looked “like if a nickel did cocaine"
How the Union Capture of Brown’s Ferry Changed the War in the West
Grant adopted an ambitious plan to reduce by half the 60 miles of treacherous, rain-gutted roads from the Union supply center at Bridgeport, Ala., to Chattanooga by establishing a new route
Target Vicksburg: The Union Challenge of Taking the City on the Hill
The Hill City controlled the Mississippi River. Taking it wouldn’t be easy
