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)
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 Civil War-era Draft Riots in New York City that began on 13 July 1863 and lasted for four violent, destructive days... (Read More)