On September 17, 1862, over 23,000 soldiers fell in a single day near the small town of Sharpsburg, Maryland. The battle ...

McClellan aimed at capturing the Confederate ... The Battle of Antietam is easily one of the most significant events in the Civil War. It was the bloodiest single-day battle in American history ...

When soldiers living in Civil War encampments wanted to cast their vote for Republican incumbent Abraham Lincoln or Democrat George McClellan in the 1864 election, most were able to follow the ...

Lee and George McClellan were once again pitted against ... An early battle in the Civil War, the Battle of Shiloh in southwestern Tennessee was one of the deadliest. The Confederate army scored ...

When Marcy's parents objected to a union with Hill, she married McClellan, though she was reportedly more in love with Hill, who served as a groomsman in the wedding. During the Civil War ...

Focusing on the first two years of the Civil War in “Lincoln vs ... are so prominent in considerations of the war. What if Lincoln had fired McClellan earlier? What if Davis had stopped Lee ...

McClellan, commander of the Army of the Potomac ... so the younger Johnston became a drummer boy -- a critical position during the Civil War that was responsible for much more than sheer ...

Ambrose Burnside's roller-coaster military career included early Civil War successes ... succeeding his friend George McClellan. He grew up in Indiana and attended West Point.

McClellan wasn’t a politician by trade ... His writing has appeared in The Los Angeles Review of Books, The Conversation, Civil War Monitor, Zocalo Public Square, and The Washington Post ...

McClellan's unsuccessful Peninsular Campaign ... Six Muskingum County Civil War soldiers were awarded the Medal of Honor. They were Alfred Ransbottom, Robert B. Brown, George A.

McClellan and Joseph Totten, all of whom Mr. Raab described as major players in the war. “You propose raising for the service of the U.S., a Civil Engineer Corps,’’ Lincoln opened in the ...