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At Petersburg, Federal engineers began digging a tunnel from Union lines toward the Confederate defenses, with the express purpose of blowing a salient in…

On Monday, June 27, 1864, at Kennesaw Mountain near Marietta, Georgia William Tecumseh Sherman’s Federals attacked Joseph Johnston’s well entrenched…

By July 1864 it was yet to be determined which side in the Civil War would ultimately prevail. For the South, it was a time of consternation with Union…

A couple of upcoming performances by the San Antonio Symphony will put them in a very different light. First we start with a kind of interstellar…

The AeriCam Anura pocket-sized quadcopter has a built-in camera and is one of the newest drones designed for personal use. But even as drones get smaller, safety and privacy concerns aren't shrinking.

In just one week Confederate General Jubal Early’s 30,000 man force in the Shenandoah Valley had pushed northeastward nearly 100 miles, threatening…

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 Tuesday, July 12, 1864, President Jefferson Davis wrote General Robert E. Lee that Joseph Johnston “has failed and there are strong indications that he…

On Saturday, July 16, 1864 President Jefferson Davis sent a wire to Joseph Johnston at Atlanta, demanding “I wish to hear from you as to [the] present…

On Sunday, July 17, 1864 President Jefferson Davis sent a wire to Joseph Johnston at Atlanta, noting “as you failed to arrest the advance of the enemy to…