New Orleans in the Civil War
New Orleans’ role in the Civil War was, perhaps, as unique as the city itself. The largest city in the South at the time of the war, New Orleans...
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The Battle of Olustee
Throughout the Civil War, Florida supplied the Confederacy with beef to feed troops and with salt to preserve it. In 1864, the Union Army, which...
Antietam National Cemetery
The country had seen nothing like it – 3,675 Americans dead in the course of one day. Antietam lives in infamy as the bloodiest day in American...
Lee's and McClellan's Headquarters at Antietam
On September 17, 1862, General Robert E. Lee gazed out across the fields of Sharpsburg, anxious to see how his army was faring against the Union army...
African Americans at Antietam
To the citizens of Sharpsburg and Washington County, Maryland, slavery was not a foreign concept. In fact, these people witnessed firsthand the...
The Dunkers
People of peace caught in the bloodiest day in American history – that was the situation confronted by the congregation of the Dunker Church on...
Baptism of Fire: The 154th New York in the Chancellorsville Campaign
The 154th New York Regiment fought at the Battle of Chancellorsville in May 1863.
Catch Me If You Can
Discover how what was to be a mere distraction proposed by John Hunt Morgan became the longest, albeit unauthorized, raid of the Civil War.
The Trowbridge Files
Thrown a genealogical curveball, Nicholas Redding took it in stride when he learned that Civil War ancestor George Duane Trowbridge was not what he...
Edward Ratcliff's Legacy
This past summer, we joined brother Damon and Edward Radcliffe brothers on a journey through their extraordinary ancestor’s footsteps, visiting the...
Chinese-Americans in the Civil War
Though the Chinese-American population was primarily concentrated on the West Coast in the mid-19th century, a significant population of Chinese...
Presidents in the Making, Buckeyes in the Heat of Battle
We know their stories in the White House, but five of Ohio’s future U.S. Presidents fought in the Civil War before heading to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue...