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The Battle of Jackson on December 19, 1862, was a Confederate attempt to delay the movements of the Union troops towards Vicksburg, Mississippi. Gen...

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...

In late summer 1861, Confederates launched counterattacks to reclaim the Kanawha Valley, which Union forces controlled since July, and prevent West...

From August to December 1863, Union Brig. Gen. William W. Averell launched a series of three raids into southeastern West Virginia and southwestern...

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...

Alongside New Market Heights, the assault on Fort Harrison formed the second distinct stage at the Battle of Chaffin’s Farm, itself part of the...

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...