The period from April 1861 to April 1865 was America's most intense national experience. The brutal war between the Confederate States of America and the United States of America continues to be ...

The 1865 poem “Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field One Night” is a mourning ritual in verse for all those fallen and left behind on the battlefields of the Civil War.

Historian Gary Ecelbarger discussed the Civil War Battle of Atlanta which precipitated the downfall of the Confederacy. The National Museum of the Civil War Soldier in Petersburg, Virginia, hosted ...