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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ten months into the Civil War, the Union was short ... that the farmers of Liberia could bolster the Union war effort. Mercifully for Union generals, President Abraham Lincoln officially ...