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 ...

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 wounded soldiers above were photographed at a hospital in Fredericksburg ... the front. Civil War combat, by comparison, was concentrated and personal, featuring large-scale battles in ...

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 ...

Let’s dive into all the fascinating things to do in Fredericksburg, VA. This national park in Virginia commemorates four major battles fought in the American Civil War: Fredericksburg ...

By what can we know of him? The works of a general are battles, campaigns and usually memoirs. The engagements of the Civil War shape up more as bloody muddles than as commanders’ chess games.