Throughout much of the Civil War, a key Union objective ... General Burnside's campaign at Fredericksburg did not go as planned, in part because the battle introduced obstacles his men had never ...

Kings and Generals' animated historical documentary series on early modern history and the United States continues with a new series on the Civil ... War. Covering the causes of secession, early ...

The Civil War was an extremely divisive time in American history that split the North and South into the Union and the ...

At the time of the Civil War, camera shutters were too ... At the December 1862 Battle of Fredericksburg, Arthur Lumley, a Dublin-born Irishman working for theNew-York Illustrated News, sketched ...

Military records reveal that women fought—and died—in all the major battles of the Civil War, participating in clashes in Antietam, Fredericksburg, Gettysburg, Shiloh, and Vicksburg ...

As the team dug, they also uncovered a Civil War trench used by Union soldiers in the Battle of Fredericksburg. The Washington farmhouse would have been long gone by the fall of 1862, when the ...

The young men all served in the Army of the Potomac, dong their duty in the war for the Union, seeing action in many of the most important battles in the East, Bull Run, the Seven Days, Antietam, ...