The Battle of Cold Harbor was the Confederacy’s last major Civil War victory. Does it offer any insight into the mysterious ...

But the purpose of the Civil War had now changed. The North was not only fighting to ... officers -- only one hundred gained commissions during the war. African American soldiers were also given ...

As the Union blockade squeezed the Confederate coast during the Civil War, Fort Fisher in North Carolina took on ever more prominence. Until almost the end of the war, it kept open the port of ...