A new collection of primary source documents, "The 1863 Stibbs Family Civil War Era Letters," is the third set of letters ...

To sum up, Hess’ Civil War Infantry Tactics is an insightful, readable book. One gets a clear idea about how the American Civil War armies of both the Confederacy and the Union marched to the ...

The book can be purchased from Amazon, Barnes & Noble and other major book retailers. The post Penn State Professor’s New Book Traces Weather’s Role in the 1863 Gettysburg Campaign appeared ...

A rain delay played an essential role in The Battle of Jackson, which was fought 162 years ago today in Jackson, Mississippi, as part of the Vicksburg campaign of the American Civil War.

As any Civil War buff worth his salted hardtack knows, Confederate soldiers never intended to fight at Gettysburg when they invaded Pennsylvania in June 1863. Their plan was to cross the ...

But what Burke spends most of his book on is the experience of the Corps in a series of frontal assaults from 1862 to 1863, from Chickasaw Bayou, through the Siege of Vicksburg, to the Battle of ...

Over 700 Civil War-Era Gold Coins Found Buried on a Kentucky Farm “This is the most insane thing ever,” said the man who unearthed the coins in a cornfield, according to a video posted last month.

Some key American institutions at the outbreak of the Civil War were astonishingly primitive and Antietam revealed just how bad. Pre-Civil War, for example, most graduates of the U.S. Military Academy ...

Join us at 11 a.m. on Saturday, July 8th at Col. Strong Vincent's grave in the Erie Cemetery and help us to remember one of Erie's heroes.