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 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 ...

The Tri-Cities Civil War Round Table will host a presentation by Frank O’Reilly titled ”Jeb Stuart and the Battle of Yellow ...

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 ...

Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park manages four major Civil War battlefields and five historic structures ...

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 ...