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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...

Civil War | Article

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...

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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...

The USS Tecumseh strikes a mine and sinks

Civil War | Article

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...

Civil War | Article

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...

Civil War | Article

Ten Facts: Boston during the American Civil War

Learn more about Boston's role in the Civil War.

Civil War | Article

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...

Sgt. William T. Biedler 43rd Virginia Cavalry

Civil War | Article

"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...

New Bern Battlefield Park, New Bern, N.C.

Civil War | Article

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...

A rifled and banded 32-pounder cannon at Shepard's Battery, Fort Fisher State Historic Site, Kure Beach, N.C.

Civil War | Article

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...