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

The Civil War had begun ... Some did, but the vast majority crossed Union lines as soon as Northern troops entered their vicinity. A Confederate general stated in 1862 that North Carolina was ...

The general’s campaign through the South is known for its brutality against civilians. For the enslaved who followed his army ...

The U.S. Congress is considering a bill to award the Congressional Gold Medal to the 200,000 Black soldiers who fought to ...

As Union General Ulysses S. Grant pushed southward ... Grant’s order responded to an unsettling economic reality: Despite the war raging around them, Southern planters still wanted to sell ...

and it has gained new currency thanks to the forthcoming release of Alex Garland’s aptly titled Civil War. The best of such films interrogate the nuances of the war and how it caught up with ...

One of the major accomplishments during the Civil War was the establishment ... at way stations such as City Point. By war’s end, there were 204 Union general hospitals with 136,894 beds.

The Lancaster Cemetery, with grave markers dating back to the American Revolution, has partnered with the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War to raise ... where the major general was killed.