The Battle of Cold Harbor was the Confederacy’s last major Civil War victory. Does it offer any insight into the mysterious ...

In the 1860s, two brothers, Nelson and Roswell Moore, photographers from Connecticut, got the idea to use the then-nascent ...

4:1 — The ratio of people who attended church weekly to those who voted in the 1860 election 2.5 — Approximate percentage of the American population that died in the Civil War 7 million ...

Death and the American Civil War. We’re talking about the costs of the war Maxwell—director of “Gods and Generals” and “Gettysburg”—has made a career of interpreting. “All of the ...

basically since the American Civil War of the 1860s. This is not to say that Americans are ignorant, but rather especially privileged. Being a part of a country that has generally maintained ...

The Civil War was fought in 10,000 places, from Valverde, New Mexico, and Tullahoma, Tennessee, to St. Albans, Vermont, and Fernandina on the Florida coast. More than 3 million Americans fought ...

Editor's Note: Shauna Devine, Ph.D., is a historian of Civil War and American medicine ... While the cause of anesthetic death in the 1860s was not understood, we now know that when ...

An inflection point in American history, the US Civil War erupted less than a century ... when he campaigned for the presidency in the late 1860s. Although he never apologized or mentioned it ...

Things came to a head in 1860 when the northerner ... itself “thrilled by the death of our oppressor." The American Civil War left a bitter legacy. In the south, burned and devastated, the ...