In Georgia, about 50 miles southeast of Atlanta in Jackson, a groundhog named “General Beauregard Lee” saw his shadow, his handlers declared, meaning six more weeks of winter. It was said that ...

Frederic Newhall—a Federal staff officer during the Battle of Brandy Station—boldly asserted, “The Gettysburg campaign was opened actively in Virginia, when General (Alfred ... of the June 9 fighting, ...