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Searching for George Gordon Meade: The Forgotten Victor of Gettysburg is Tom Huntington's account of his travels to sites associated with Union Gen...

The Civil War Trust recently sat down with author Neal Wixson to talk about his new book, Echoes from the Boys of Company H, an account about soldiers...

Learn more about the attack that led to the breaking of Robert E. Lee's lines at Petersburg. The successful Union attack on April 2, 1865 led to the...

A. Wilson Greene The Oak Grove Methodist Church, first known as Hubbard's Meeting House, was built here in 1820. The present structure, on the site of...

This article describes the successful actions of Confederate Major General William Mahone's troops on June 22, 1864, during the Petersburg Campaign.

This article describes the futile charge made by the 1st Maine Heavy Artillery at Petersburg on June 18, 1864.

This article describes the actions of P.G.T. Beauregard's troops at Petersburg on June 16 and 17, 1864.

A. Wilson Greene General Ulysses S. Grant's failure to capture Richmond or destroy the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia during the Overland...

A summary of the Second Battle of Weldon Railroad, part of Gen. Ulysses S. Grant's campaign to capture Petersburg, Virginia

John McCausland Jr. was born on September 13, 1836, in St. Louis, Missouri, to an Irish immigrant. When McCausland was left orphaned at the age of...

The 4th United States Infantry Regiment or "The Warriors" has served the United States for over 200 years on numerous battlefields around the world.

For nine months, the Confederate defenses of Petersburg, Virginia, held firm against repeated Federal assaults. They could not hold forever.