Gettysburg and Harrisburg usually come to mind when thinking about the Civil War in Pennsylvania. Pottsville, not so much. Yet, like many communities, Schuylkill County’s seat was ...
Introduction : Civil War irregular warfare in theory and practice -- The Confederacy's self-inflicted wound : the guerilla war in Arkansas, 1862-1865 -- Fire, provosts, and Tories : the federal ...
Time lost, time found : the Confederate victory at Manassas and the Union defeat at Bull Run -- "An hour too late" : the Confederate defeat at Gettysburg -- "Like a wheel in a watch" : soldiers, camp, ...
The Civil War was one of the most consequential events in American history, and these five films tackle that terrible ...
Recently, members of the Daughters of Union Veterans of the Civil War, 1861-1865 held a wreath-laying ceremony at the Civil ...
The surrender of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia to Union Gen. Ulysses S. Grant near Appomattox on April 9, 1865 was an event remembered as essentially the end of the ...
The issue of slavery divided the United States long before the election of Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War. After the Kansas-Nebraska Act passed in 1854, newly established states could use popular ...