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President Jefferson Davis on April 2, 1863, in response to criticism of Vicksburg’s commanding general, John Clifford Pemberton, wrote:Davis’ support was…

In the late afternoon of Thursday, September 1, 1864 Confederate General John Bell Hood, fearing a direct attack by William Tecumseh Sherman’s Union…

On Friday, September 2, 1864 William Tecumseh Sherman informed the Union War Department in Washington, D.C. of the capitulation of Atlanta, Georgia.…

On Saturday, September 3, 1864 Abraham Lincoln declared September 5 as a national day of celebration for the Union victories at Atlanta and Mobile. In…

For months the Union assault against Fort Sumter had continued almost on a daily basis. However, on Thursday, July 7, 1864 in Charlestown Harbor…

At the Monocacy River southeast of Frederick, Maryland some forty miles northeast of Washington, D.C. on Saturday, July 9, 1864, 6000 Union troops engaged…

Even though his small, invading army had taken ghastly casualties at Franklin, John Bell Hood continued to follow his Union foe as they strategically…

During Sherman’s march through Georgia, General Joseph Wheeler’s reinforced Confederate cavalry corps constituted the one and only effective threat to…

The San Antonio region is expected to add 1.6 million new residents by 2040- the equivalent of another city the size of San Antonio. Traffic tie-ups…

Many in the South were openly critical of Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation, which had been announced after the Battle of Antietam. In early October…