One of the major accomplishments during the Civil ... the first battles brought old school medical thinking and preparedness into turmoil. At the first major land battle of the war on July 16 ...

Some of the best Civil War movies detail these skirmishes well as specific battles were highlighted with varying degrees of ...

Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs division ... away from the front. Civil War combat, by comparison, was concentrated and personal, featuring large-scale battles in which bullets rather ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Garry Adelman, a historian, rates nine American Civil War battles in movies. He comments on the Civil War-era artillery and rifles on display in "Free State of ...

the anguish of death in battle and the grief of families at home. Archival images of 16,000 photographs, taken from a total of 1 million pictures of the Civil War, along with period paintings ...