American Civil War

Abraham Lincoln began his presidency admitting that he knew but little of ships, but he quickly came to preside over the largest national armada to...

Across North America's periphery, unknown and overlooked Civil War campaigns were waged over whether the Union or Confederacy would dominate lan...

The Confederate Navy's medical service is usually overlooked in histories of the Civil War, yet it was vital in maintaining the fighting strengt...

In April 1865, as the Civil War came to a close, Abraham Lincoln announced his support for voting rights for at least some of the newly freed ensla...

In this, his last work, J. David Greenstone provides an important new analysis of American liberalism and of Lincoln's unique contribution to the n...

As Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman swept through Georgia in 1864, he fought several small battles against an ever-retreating Gen. Joseph E. Johnston ...

This work traces the history of a remarkable troop of Hoosier horsemen--the East Wing of the Third Indiana Cavalry--during the Civil War. From t...

Let our citizens organize and drill, urged the editor of the Pittsburgh Gazette in September 1862 as rumors of a Confederate attack on the North gr...

While Vicksburg and Gettysburg tend to receive the most attention among Civil War battles, it is Port Hudson that holds the record for the longest-...

Jacob D. Cox experienced more facets of the Civil War than most officers: by land and sea, in both Western and Eastern Theaters, among the inner po...

July 1, 1863, had gone poorly for the Union armys XI Corps. Shattered in battle north of the Pennsylvania town of Gettysburg, the battered and emba...

The wide-ranging and largely misunderstood series of operations around Petersburg, Virginia, were the longest and most extensive of the entire Civi...

In The Siege of Vicksburg: Climax of the Campaign to Open the Mississippi River, May 23-July 4, 1863, noted Civil War scholar Timothy B. Smith offe...

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...

Following the defeat of Maj. Gen. William S. Rosecranss Army of the Cumberland at the Battle of Chickamauga, Gen. Braxton Bragg and the Army of Ten...

Long relegated to a secondary position behind Gettysburg, Vicksburg has more recently earned consideration by historians as the truly decisive batt...

In early April 1861, the streets of West Chester, PA, echoed with the sound of a rattling snare drum. The orders it marked out could be heard for b...

Do not bring on a general engagement, Confederate General Robert E. Lee warned his commanders. The Army of Northern Virginia, slicing its way throu...

March 1865: The United States was at a crossroads and, truth be told, Abraham Lincoln was a sick man. I am very unwell, he confided to a close acqu...