Lincoln's Reconstruction: An Unfulfilled Vision of the Union
In 1861, as the Union wavered on the edge of collapse, Abraham Lincoln took office, marking the beginning of an undertaking that would test the fabric...
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"Through Storm and Sunshine": Valorous Vivandières in the Civil War
More than canteen carriers, these “daughters of the regiment” braved the chaos of war to tend to soldiers on and off the battlefield. Learn about...
From Snowballs to Cannonballs
Grab your snow shovels, bundle up, and man the ramparts of your impromptu winter quarters for this edition of Nature of History on the influence of...
Forgotten Monitor: The Story of the USS Tecumseh
By the spring of 1864, Rear Admiral David G. Farragut had developed a case of “Monitor Fever.” Since early in the war, when he was named to command...
Forgotten Monitor: The Story of the USS Tecumseh
Looking north from the beach at Mobile Point, Alabama, a handful of oil platforms clutter the inside of Mobile Bay, a few miles offshore. To the south...
Gunfight on the Water
By January 1865, Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant’s armies in Virginia had a choke hold on the Confederate railroad center at Petersburg and the capital city...
Ten Facts: Boston during the American Civil War
Learn more about Boston's role in the Civil War.
John H. Morgan’s Christmas Raid
During the winter of 1862-1863, Confederate General Braxton Bragg, defending Middle Tennessee, faced the larger Federal Army of the Cumberland under...
"A robbing of the cradle."
On February 17, 1864, the Confederate congress passed a new conscription law that expanded the ages for enlistment. In North Carolina, soldiers...
Burnside Takes the Coast
After raising a “Coast Division” that wasn’t particularly of the sea-faring sort, Ambrose Burnside’s fleet embarked on an expedition that looked to...
Power of the Sword
After the fall of the formidable Fort Fisher, the Confederates surrendered their arms to the Federal forces. But one sword would carry special weight...