The most turbulent contested election in American history may have been that of 1860. Splits in the parties produced four
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The Florida The most famous of the Confederate commerce raiders was the CSS Alabama, but it was far from the
In the Battle of Chaffin’s Farm/New Market Heights, Union troops spearheaded by the USCT attacked Confederate entrenchments held by the
Civil War Reenactment of the Union assault on Fort Harrison. 150 years ago Grant and Lee were deadlocked in the
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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