An article about the surrender of the Confederate warship Shenandoah after it had fired the last shot of the Civil War... (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)
In this article, Gena Philibert-Ortega provides tips and links to help you research your Civil War Union veteran ancestor... (Read More)
An article about the first shot fired in the Civil War: the attack upon the ship “Star of the West” in Charleston Harbor on 9 January 1861... (Read More)
An article by Thomas Jay Kemp about identifying his relative John T. Webb, whom he noticed in an old photo wearing a Civil War uniform... (Read More)
A Civil War letter written in 1862 by a soldier serving in the 1st Louisiana Native Guard, one of the first African American regiments in the U.S. Army... (Read More)
An article about the Civil War’s Battle of Antietam, fought near Sharpsburg, Maryland, on 17 September 1862, the bloodiest day in U.S. military history... (Read More)
An article about the Confederacy’s victory in the Civil War’s Second Battle of Bull Run (Manassas) in Virginia on 28-30 Aug. 1862... (Read More)
An article about the Battle of the Crater on 30 July 1864 during the American Civil War, a disaster for the Union army... (Read More)
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