The year: 1861. The problem: Pro-slavery states had broken away from the Union, rising up in armed revolt as the treasonous ...

George McClellan, unlike the other generals in the Union Army, only served through ... who is nearly synonymous with the cavalry during the Civil War. James Longstreet had a hand in the Battle ...

Women veterans from the Civil War, World War II ... Thompson was caught behind enemy lines and led Union troops back to capture a rebel general. Though removed from Defense Department servers ...

In the village of Appomattox Court House, Virginia, on April 9, 1865, Robert E. Lee surrenders his 28,000 Confederate troops ...

The two commanders sat across ... largely be deferred. The Union was saved, but the intersections of race and legacy of slavery, which was at the core of the Civil War, continues to confront ...