Looking for the Confederate War

 The Blue versus the Gray, or the North versus the South, is often how we interpret the two opposing sides during the war. That is true to a...

   As the war ground to a close, orders went out for the arrest of various political figures, including both sitting governors and former go...

   There was one goal for army commanders: to obliterate the opponent. While this was their objective, it seldom happened. The enemy often e...

Drew Gilpin Faust, in Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in American Civil War, writes that it was “not the Confederacy’...

    Cemeteries are wonderful history lessons. Often, the larger cemeteries have scores of lessons. We could spend the rest of the year just ...

Part of three of an infrequent series related to biographies on Confederate generals, this installment features the state of Kentucky. ...

     Often we hear that the Civil War was a war fought brother against brother. And that’s true, but really oversimplified. It was brother a...

  Lay down boys, take a little nap Lay down boys, take a little nap Lay down boys, take a little nap 14 miles to the Cumberland Gap! ...

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