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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…

On Saturday, October 4, 1862, General Earl Van Dorn’s Confederates renewed their assault against General William Rosecrans’ Federals at Corinth,…

Four individuals—Samuel Arnold, Michael O’Laughlen, Edman Spangler, and Samuel Mudd-- did not receive the death penalty for conspiracy in Lincoln’s death.…

After the war, Union General George McClellan took his family to Europe until 1868. Returning home, McClellan became the chief engineer of the New York…

On Friday, April 8, 1864 Confederates commanded by General Richard Taylor formed a defensive perimeter at Sabine Crossroads near Mansfield, Louisiana.…

By mid-April 1864, communications flowed freely between President Jefferson Davis and his chief general in the field, Robert E. Lee. Both men anticipated…

This Week in the Civil War-- On Thursday, April 7, 1864 the Confederate War Department ordered James Longstreet’s corps, which had spent the winter and…

The following day after Nathaniel Banks’ Union forces were defeated at Mansfield, Richard Taylor’s Confederates attacked Banks at Pleasant Hill,…