Confederate engineer Horace Hunley, who invented the submarine that made the 1st successful attack, died on 15 October 1863 during a training run... (Read More)
Melissa Davenport Berry writes about Joseph Short’s key invention during the Civil War: a knapsack that didn’t wreck Union soldiers’ backs and shoulders... (Read More)
The last Confederate army to surrender in the Civil War was not one of Southern whites: it was the Cherokee army of Brigadier General/Chief Stand Watie... (Read More)
Melissa Davenport Berry tells a heartwarming story about Israel Broadsword, a 100-year-old Civil War vet who, in 1946, received a new Civil War uniform... (Read More)
On 12 December 1862 the U.S.S. Cairo became the first ship in history to be sunk by a mine detonated electronically – a new military weapon was born... (Read More)
An account from a reporter who was at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, when Confederate forces attacked on 1 July 1863, beginning the Battle of Gettysburg... (Read More)