American Civil War

Joshua L. Chamberlain of Maine and John B. Gordon of Georgia led the Union and Confederate armies, respectively, at the formal surrender ceremony a...

Emory Upton (18391881) was thrust into the Civil War immediately upon graduation from the United States Military Academy at West Point in May of 18...

Emory Upton (18391881) was thrust into the Civil War immediately upon graduation from the United States Military Academy at West Point in May of 18...

Fought on July 28, 1864, the Battle of Ezra Church was a dramatic engagement during the Civil War's Atlanta Campaign. Confederate forces under John...

The era known as Reconstruction is one of the unhappiest times in American history. It succeeded in reuniting the nation politically after the Civi...

Organized in the fall of 1862, the 125th Ohio Volunteer Infantry was commanded by the aggressive and ambitious Colonel Emerson Opdycke, a citize...

Throughout Tennessee, Civil War monuments stand tall across the landscape, from Chattanooga to Memphis, and recall important events and figures wit...

During the Civil War, each side accused the other of mistreating prisoners of war. Today, most historians believe that there was systemic and de...

Soaring obelisks, graceful arches, and soldiers standing tall atop pedestals recall the memory of the Civil War in Mississippi, a former Confederat...

Alexander M. McCook, one of the youngest major generals in the Union army, was a member of a patriotic family from Ohio that became known as the...

In April 1861, brothers Daniel and Pressley Boyd left their farm in Abbeville County, South Carolina, to join the Confederate army. The Civil War s...

In becoming a useful man on the maritime stage, Matthew Fontaine Maury focused on the ills of a clique-ridden Navy, charted sea lanes and bested...

Following the Battle of Nashville, Confederate General John Bell Hoods Army of Tennessee was in full retreat, from the battle lines south of Nashvi...

They believed they would live forever. So begins Mira Ptacins haunting account of the women of Camp Etnaan otherworldly community in the woods of M...

Volume two of The Texas Biography Series reveals Edmund J. Davis, the heroic man who stood in strong opposition to his peers and better reflected t...

This innovative study presents a new, integrated view of the Civil War and Reconstruction and the history of the western United States. Award-winni...

This innovative study presents a new, integrated view of the Civil War and Reconstruction and the history of the western United States. Award-winni...

The time has come now, Abraham Lincoln told his cabinet as he presented the preliminary draft of a Proclamation of Emancipation. Lincoln's effort t...

Dramatically and authentically, using eyewitness accounts where possible, this book recounts the final 13 months of the Civil War, a year in whi...

It could be said that Davie County, North Carolina, entered the Civil War only reluctantly. As late as February of 1861, a statewide ballot call...

From the commanding call of the bugle at reveille to the reassuring songs from around the campfire at night, music was an integral part of the Civi...