Author: Eric J. Wittenberg

July 1863 was a momentous month in the Civil War. News of the Union victories at Gettysburg and Vicksburg electrified the North and devastated the ...

Award-winning authors Scott L. Mingus Sr. and Eric J. Wittenberg are back with the second and final installment of If We Are Striking for Pennsylva...

This Civil War sourcebook organizes the crucial details of the war in an inventive format designed to enhance the reader's knowledge base and bi...

Gettysburgs Forgotten Cavalry Actions examines in great detail three of the campaigns central cavalry episodes. The first is the heroic but doomed ...

On July 3, 1863, a large-scale cavalry fight was waged on Crest Ridge four miles east of Gettysburg. There, on what is commonly referred to as East...

The Johnson-Gilmor Raid represents one of three attempts to free prisoners of war during the American Civil War. Like the other two, it was destine...

West Virginia was the child of the storm, concluded early Mountaineer historian and Civil War veteran, Maj. Theodore F. Lang. The northwestern thir...

July 1863 was a momentous month in the Civil War. News of Gettysburg and Vicksburg electrified the North and devastated the South. Sandwiched geogr...

June 1863. The Gettysburg Campaign is underway. Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia pushes west into the Shenandoah Valley and then north tow...

Ulric Dahlgren was a brilliant, ambitious young man who became the youngest full colonel in the United States Army at the age of twenty-one, yet di...