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
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
The War in Their Words: The Allegheny Arsenal Explosion
An eyewitness describes the horrible 1862 Allegheny Arsenal explosion
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 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"
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
The Seven Days Campaign — A Turning Point More Important than Antietam?
George B. McClellan, Robert E. Lee, and a watershed campaign
How a Violent Little 1862 Cavalry Clash Sent Confederates a Message that Union Troopers Could Fight
An 1862 cavalry clash at Boonsboro, Md., changed the scoresheet for Union troopers
What if Robert E. Lee had sent Troops to Vicksburg?
Why exactly was Robert E. Lee so opposed to sending help to Mississippi in 1863?
Top 8 Civil War Landmarks to Check Out in Historic Baltimore
Learn more about Baltimore's Civil War past, when Southern sympathizers attacked Union troops in April 1861—the war’s first blood drawn in action
Lessons Learned from the Battle of Mobile Bay in 1864
The courage and bold command decisions of America's first admiral, David Glasgow Farragut, resulted in a stunning victory for the Union during the Civil War
Escape Was Hopeless: A Stonewall Brigade Captain at Gettysburg
A Stonewall Brigade captain recounts the savage July 3, 1863, fight for Culp’s Hill at Gettysburg
John Bachelder: How the Visionary Helped Preserve Gettysburg’s History
John Bachelder worked tirelessly to commemorate the July 1863 battle
Several Crucial Strategies that Shaped the 1862 Seven Days Campaign
A handful of critical decisions altered the course of the 1862 Seven Days Campaign
