The muffled drum's sad roll has beat The soldier's last tattoo; No more on life's parade shall meet The brave…
These photographs were taken 150 years ago today on Spotsylvania Battlefield by photographer Timothy O'Sullivan. For an indepth look at these…
We have just past the 150th anniversary of the Battle of the Wilderness, one of the greatest battles of the…
Abraham Lincoln did not issue the Emancipation Proclamation until January 1, 1863, nearly two years into the war. Why didn't…
For years this photograph languished in the National Archives, part of their collection of the works of Matthew Brady, the…
The story of the prisons of the Civil War is a very sad one. Thousands of men died from disease…
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150 years ago the Confederate prison at Andersonville, Georgia, was beginning to fill with Union prisoners. This photograph was taken…
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