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   There were eight generals, four from the Confederate army and four from the Union army, killed or mortally wounded at the battle of Sharp...

   It had been a successful (but costly) summer campaign. In late June 1862, Robert E. Lee and his Army of Northern Virginia had pushed the ...

Combat changes many men. Confederate General John R. Jones seemed to be one of those men. Born in Rockingham County, Virginia, in 1827, John...

    Battles fought during the 1860s often encompassed great swaths of ground. Gettysburg alone comes in at almost 18 square miles. As these ...

     A week ago, I had a chance to visit to Sharpsburg and the Antietam Battlefield. For the first time, I sought out General Lee’s Headquar...

     Slowly the little band of twenty-eight enlisted men and four officers sloshed through the mud over the top of a hill and down into ...