Old Dominion University professor Timothy Orr teaches a course on the Civil War and Reconstruction. In this lecture, he used slides while he discussed how Union and Confederate forces handled ...

Its vivid scenes illuminate the prison’s overcrowding and deprivation during the Civil War. Almost 13,000 of its prisoners died from malnutrition, diseases and other causes.

The Civil War lingers through sweeping, cinematic episodes—Gettysburg and Vicksburg, Antietam and Atlanta, secession and emancipation—that accent the greatest convulsion in U.S. history.

Gen. William T. Sherman Civil War sword and books will go up for auction By Kaila Nichols, CNN 4 minute read Updated 12:07 PM EDT, Sun May 12, 2024 Link Copied! ...

So many books on the American Civil War have been published in the past 160 years that it’s been estimated they average out to at least one per day since the surrender at Appomattox. Still, they ...

New Civil War research armed with more data gives the fullest picture yet of not just the overall death toll but its disproportionate impact on the South, including Georgia.

Following the road to Civil War through Massachusetts and South Carolina. Robert W. Merry’s “Decade of Disunion” shows how the two states figured prominently at nearly every stage of America ...

"'Tis Not Our War: Avoiding Military Service in the Civil War North" by Paul Taylor is on bookshelves now. (Stackpole Books) Taylor has written or edited eight books about specific areas of ...