Ten months into the Civil War, the Union was short on a crucial supply, the absence of which threatened to sap the fighting strength of the Northern army: coffee. This critical source of energy ...

Civil War veteran John D. Billings, who served in the 10th Massachusetts Battery, wrote in his memoir Hardtack and Coffee about how important the coffee ration was to the average Union soldier.

As Rhett Butler pointed out in "Gone with the Wind," there were just some things the South lacked during the Civil War era that ... At the beginning of the war, the Union outnumbered the ...

The prolific writer and Civil War historian held ... of Washington compelling Union troops to guard the city rather than engage in battles elsewhere; Union officer, Charles Russell Lowell, an ...

Over the four years of the American Civil War – from 1861 to 1865 – the majority of military casualties were suffered by Union forces. To maintain the integrity of the Union, federalist states ...