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
‘For the Quality of Fighting Material, the World Is Our Judge’
An Iron Brigade captain recounts his regiment's epic Gettysburg fight
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
Explore Antietam: A Bucolic Setting for a Bloody Day
A few of our favorite locations on the war's most gory single-day battlefield
The Complex Legacy of Appomattox
The surrender at Appomattox Court House has been remembered—and misremembered—from the day the Army of Northern Virginia laid down its arms.
Eastern Theater Outcasts Battle for Redemption Near Atlanta
Confederate Iverson and Yankee Stoneman each hoped to restore a stained reputation
“Shell Away”—Baldy Smith’s Defiant Response to Rebel Demand That He Surrender Carlisle, Pa.
On July 1, 1863, a Union officer's hard-nosed response kept J.E.B. Stuart away from Lee for six hours
‘This Place Is Called The Wilderness’
Civil War soldiers who fought in the tangled forest west of Fredericksburg created a hellish mythology
The Last Stand: Visit the Five Forks Battlefield and Dinwiddie County, Va.
The war’s closing hours erupted in this southern seat
A Closer Look at First Assault at Antietam’s ‘Creek of Death’
Two of the 11th Connecticut's officers died in gallant rush on Burnside Bridge
The War Came Knocking on Spanglers’ Barn Door
Farm at crucial Gettysburg intersection was commandeered as 11th Corps hospital
The Campaign for a Continental Confederacy
The battle for the Southwestern desert was as crucial as the fighting back east
Rufus King: Popular General Whose Career Was Stigmatized by Illness
Accused of drunkenness at Second Bull Run even though evidence showed he suffered multiple epileptic seizures
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!'
