Budiansky focuses on the Battle of Antietam, which took place during the American Civil War in 1862 and left some 3,600 soldiers killed and 16,000 wounded. A military draw, it became a political ...

Mackowski also had a 6,000-word article published in Crossfire, a magazine published by the American Civil War Roundtable of the U.K. “Stories from Spotsy” features some odds and ends that Mackowski ...

Nicknamed "Fighting Joe" for his reputed exploits in the Battle of Williamsburg, Joseph Hooker was a career U.S. Army officer, rising to the rank of major general during the Civil War. Though he ...