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In January 1782, Brig. Gen. Francis Marion temporarily left his militia brigade to take a seat in the South Carolina General Assembly. The following...

Moores Creek Bridge occurred between Patriot and Loyalist forces in North Carolina on February 27, 1776. Loyalist forces anticipated support from a...

The Battle of Fort Ann on July 8, 1777, was a British victory, but was remarkably advantageous for the Patriots because it hindered the progress of...

Pyle’s Defeat occurred on February 25, 1781, when Patriot forces sought to disrupt Tory reinforcements from reaching General Charles Cornwallis and...

The second of three major battles fought in Winchester during the Civil War, this Confederate victory eradicated Federal opposition in the Shenandoah...

While the events at Yorktown in October 1781 had drastically changed the winds of the war, now blowing in favor of the Americans, the war itself had...

Parker’s Ferry was a major thoroughfare crossing the Pon Pon River (Edisto River) about 33 miles west of Charleston. Here Brigadier General Francis...

In his first of many offensive campaigns of the Civil War, Confederate President Jefferson Davis sent Gen. Robert E. Lee to protect vital railroads...

On July 30, 1864, a Confederate cavalry force of about 3,000 under Brig. Gen. John McCausland and Brig. Gen. Bradley T. Johnson invaded Chambersburg...

What would become the first organized land battle of the Civil War began from a Union attempt to protect railroads in Western Virginia. Union Major...

In the summer of 1777, a British army under the command of General John Burgoyne planned a siege of Fort Ticonderoga, an American fortification that...

Constructed prior to the summer of 1864 and located north of Athens, Alabama, the fortifications at Sulphur Creek Trestle protected the Nashville and...