One can hardly imagine what the night of Feb. 17, 1865, must have been like in Charleston. Hours before surrendering to Union troops, the city was in chaos and overwhelmed by unchecked fires ...

A national campaign is underway to permanently protect one of the Civil War’s most pivotal battlefields — the site of the ...

That was certainly the case for the October 4, 1865, issue. This was a mere six months after the end of the Civil War, at a time when Southern states were still in rough shape overall.

The slaves had come to San Bernardino in 1852 with their owner, Robert Smith, part of the Mormon founding of the community.

After Columbia and Charleston, South Carolina, fell to the Union, in early 1865, Jefferson Davis belatedly handed over the supreme command or the army to General Lee. This could not stop the Union ...

The Fall of Mobile In his second book, Paul Brueske, a life long student of the Civil War and founder of the Mobile Area Civil War Round Table, draws on his extensive research into the war on the Gulf ...