US Civil War

Rose Greenhow was a prominent leader in Washington society who helped the Confederacy from both inside and outside the U.S. capital.

Dec 15, 2009 - Walter Coffey

The plain gray stucco neoclassical mansion housed war conferences. It also witnessed the death of a child and a visit by Abraham Lincoln.

Dec 14, 2009 - Mike Virgintino

From his station atop a 62-foot-high pedestal in the center of Hemming Plaza, a Confederate soldier keeps watch over Downtown Jacksonville.

Dec 9, 2009 - Devan Stuart

Many acres are protected at Virginia's Chancellorsville and Winchester battle sites and more is saved on the Minnesota prairie.

Dec 1, 2009 - Mike Virgintino

The early southern triumphs of 1861 and 1862, filled Southern prisons with thousands of Union prisoners. The South was anxious for a formal agreement on prisoners.

Nov 30, 2009 - william oneill

In 1862, Abraham Lincoln made a failed attempt to emigrate former slaves out of the U.S. in a humanitarian effort to improve their future.

Nov 29, 2009 - Dave Kostiuk

In the Civil War, the Battle of Antietam was a Confederate gamble that ended in a bloody stalemate. However its aftermath changed the course of American history.

Nov 24, 2009 - Walter Coffey

These men, who looked like gentlemen grandfathers during the late 1800s and early 1900s, planned and executed some of worst acts of violence during the Civil War.

Nov 23, 2009 - Mike Virgintino

A 422-acre campus features four museums, four historic homes, living history demonstrations and an important battlefield.

Nov 20, 2009 - Mike Virgintino

In 1862 Confederate general Stonewall Jackson ordered cartographer Jedediah Hotchkiss to "Make me a map of the Valley."

Nov 19, 2009 - Kristin Hanneman

The Battle of Nashville Monument in Nashville, Tenn., faced many struggles but finally was restored and moved to its current site on the actual battlefield.

Nov 15, 2009 - Lyda Phillips

Almost everyone is familiar with Taps. This bugle call has been played at military funerals for years but the real story behind this music is less well-known.

Nov 12, 2009 - Holly Beth Anderle

Congressional action will help save additional battlefield sites as local groups move forward with plans to purchase land in Virginia and Tennessee.

Nov 8, 2009 - Mike Virgintino

Carl Schurz, a German emigrant from the 1848 European revolutions, supported Abraham Lincoln and led soldiers into the major battles of the Civil War.

Nov 6, 2009 - William L. Wunder

Camp William Penn was the first and largest of 18 federal training camps for black soldiers, who were officially designated United States Colored Troops (USCT).

Nov 5, 2009 - Linda N. Riggins

Though a well-qualified individual, McClellan would lack the risk-taking needed to wage war, resulting in many political problems, and an increasingly hostile public.

Nov 1, 2009 - Shri Desai

After Bull Run, the focus of operations turned to securing the west, particularly Missouri, while McClellan trained the soon-to-be famous Army of the Potomac.

Oct 31, 2009 - Shri Desai

The Emancipation Proclamation declared the Union would fight to end slavery, but its promises of full citizenship initially went unfulfilled.

Oct 20, 2009 - Ron Goodwin

Sharecropping replaced slavery as the southern labor system after the Civil War and became just as restrictive to the freedoms of blacks.

Oct 20, 2009 - Ron Goodwin

The United States should have flourished during the Reconstruction, but instead failed to provide equal status for its black citizens.

Oct 20, 2009 - Ron Goodwin

Abraham Lincoln's victory in the 1860 presidential election ensured that the divisions between North and South could not be resolved.

Oct 18, 2009 - Walter Coffey

Abraham Lincoln's first foray into politics featured a strict adherence to destructive Whig Party economic policies and minimal attention to the slavery issue.

Oct 10, 2009 - Walter Coffey

Belle Boyd was a spy who later became a celebrity because of her exploits. Bold, daring, ready to use feminine charms to gain information, she was very effective.

Oct 9, 2009 - Eric Niderost

Following Fort Sumter, four more Southern states left the Union. Afterward, both sides raised armies, and met for the first time at Manassas Junction.

Oct 6, 2009 - Shri Desai

William T. "Bloody Bill" Anderson began life in 1840. He was one of William and Martha Anderson's six children.

Oct 6, 2009 - Janelle Gann-Austin