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After traveling 1,100 miles in two weeks, John Hunt Morgan and his men had reached the end of their raid through Kentucky and states north of the Ohio...

President Lincoln's childhood fascination with magic continued into his time in the White House. Learn more about his love of mind-boggling feats and...

After the United States acquired Florida from Spain in 1821, solidifying its existing defenses and constructing new fortifications was crucial to...

The aftermath of the Battle of Gettysburg was horrible beyond belief. Thousands of grievously wounded soldiers lay strewn across the fields or...

Thunderbolt, horse thief, raider – depending on which side of the Mason-Dixon Line one resides might determine which epithet one would use to describe...

As if by some strange and violent coincidence, Wednesday, September 17, 1862, is a date synonymous with death and tragedy. While most remember this...

Florida made enormous material contributions to the Confederate war effort, relative to its population, and was the site of two minor battles, both...

Though many clergymen from the slave states sought to avoid political themes in their sermons during the secession crisis, the overwhelming majority...

Fact #1: Before the Civil War, Southern industrialists built a large and varied manufacturing economy. As one historian has put it, the states that...