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Confederate General Joseph Johnston’s retreat to the Chattahoochee River compelled President Jefferson Davis on July 7, 1864 to write Johnston that he was…

On Monday, July 11, 1864 Jubal Early’s Confederates entered the environs of Washington, D.C. and attacked Fort Stevens with artillery. That afternoon and…

In early September 1864 with Philip Sheridan planning an offensive designed to economically punish the Shenandoah Valley, Robert E. Lee had no alternative…

On Sunday, September 4, 1864 a Federal raiding party of cavalry boldly entered Greeneville, Tennessee, where Confederate General John Hunt Morgan was…

On Wednesday, November 30, 1864 at Franklin, Tennessee, the decisive battle between Hood’s Confederate invaders and Union forces occurred. In the…

Five warships of the Union Gulf blockading squadron in early October 1862 effectively forced the surrender of the important Confederate port at Galveston,…

After the battle of Iuka in September 1862, General Earl Van Dorn’s Confederates and those of General Sterling Price were combined. On October 3, 1862,…

On January 11, 1863, the Confederate vessel Alabama squared off against the Union’s Hatterasa* in the vicinity of the Galveston Lighthouse. The Hatteras…

Union general Joshua Chamberlain, the Maine college professor whose gallantry at Gettysburg earned the Congressional Medal of Honor, resigned from the…

Dr. Samuel Mudd, convicted of conspiracy in Lincoln’s death, narrowly escaping the death penalty but was sentenced to life imprisonment. While there is no…