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The second of three major battles fought in Winchester during the Civil War, this Confederate victory eradicated Federal opposition in the Shenandoah...

In his first of many offensive campaigns of the Civil War, Confederate President Jefferson Davis sent Gen. Robert E. Lee to protect vital railroads...

On July 30, 1864, a Confederate cavalry force of about 3,000 under Brig. Gen. John McCausland and Brig. Gen. Bradley T. Johnson invaded Chambersburg...

What would become the first organized land battle of the Civil War began from a Union attempt to protect railroads in Western Virginia. Union Major...

Constructed prior to the summer of 1864 and located north of Athens, Alabama, the fortifications at Sulphur Creek Trestle protected the Nashville and...

Constructed in the spring of 1864 and renamed for a local surveyor in the 1890s, Fort Henderson stood outside Athens, Alabama. It was one of many...

By the spring of 1864, the Federal high command set forth a plan to bring pressure across the whole of the Southern Confederacy. Overall Union...

The Battle of Morton’s Ford, though it was really more of a large skirmish, was the brainchild of General Benjamin Butler of Massachusetts, a man not...

During the night of October 2-3, Union Brig. General Joseph Reynolds advanced with two brigades from Cheat Mountain to reconnoiter the Confederate...

In the spring of 1863, Union colonel Abel Streight set out from Nashville, under orders from General William S. Rosecrans to target railroads and...

The American Battlefield Trust's brief summary of the June 7, 1863 Battle of Milliken's Bend, Louisiana, a part of the Vicksburg Campaign

The American Battlefield Trust's brief summary of the July 18, 1864 Battle of Cool Spring, Virginia