Most Civil War histories evoke the bravura of 19th century military skill, of masses of men moving across open fields to face other orderly masses of men and commence killing each other. Few books ...

Hunt, the letter-writer and soldier from rural Stoughton, was one of the Union soldiers captured at Gettysburg. He did not survive the Confederate prisoner-of-war camp Libby, in Virginia, where he ...

The Civil War ended in 1865, but for Minnesota and the one-time rebel state of Virginia, the battle continues over a prized battle flag. Union Soldier Marshall Sherman of Minnesota stands in front of ...

In recent decades, Gettysburg has come to be understood less as a military encounter than as an emancipatory turning point.

Just the name evokes emotion, and in many, more questions than answers. This place was the site of the most important battle of the Civil War. In a three-day battle between Union and Confederate ...

For the first two years of the American Civil War, supporters of the North seemed to hear almost solely about battle victories by the South. “You have to imagine how terrified people became when the ...