Throughout much of the Civil War, a key Union objective was to penetrate the South and seize the city of Richmond, Virginia ... in part because the battle introduced obstacles his men had never ...

That sentence, or some variation, was repeated Wednesday by many of those who gathered at a Civil War battle site a few miles north of Joplin. A ceremony was held at the location — near the ...

Strategically, the Eastern Theater was arguably the most important battleground of the Civil War ... as well as site of the War's most famous battles. The Army of Northern Virginia before the ...

Harper's Ferry, West Virginia (top) and Chickamauga, Georgia (bottom) were the sites of two Civil War battles. Eliot Dudik In “Poem of Wonder at the Resurrection of the Wheat,” Walt Whitman ...

The new Civil War Trails sign on the Eastern Shore dedicates Peter Jacob Carter. The sign’s origins lie with Arthur Carter, his grandson.

An enormous cache of recently discovered Civil War letters and other 19th century documents has been donated to Virginia Tech by ... Hill, who died in the Third Battle of Petersburg in April ...

The American Civil War wasn't just a battle between states—it was a showcase of incredible military talent. From 1861 to 1865 ...