Famous for leading the ill-fated "Pickett's ... Quickly promoted to colonel and then brigadier general, he led a brigade under James Longstreet's command. Known for his immaculate appearance ...

Sheridan's horse during most of the Civil War, Winchester was mounted and presented to the ... his troops and turn almost-certain defeat into victory. Kidron became famous as General of the Armies ...

“To speak as the slave would, to say that we are as happy for the Civil War as most Americans are for the Revolutionary War, is to rupture the narrative.” ...

On April 17, 1865, the largest troop surrender of the Civil War occurred. While the event was a momentous one, the place where it happened was not particularly notable before that day. It was a ...

In his famous 1858 speech, Abraham Lincoln warned that only civil war would resolve the issue of slavery in the U.S. He wasn’t wrong. An anonymous letter supposedly from a member of a secret ...