Author Vincent L. Burns gives a sweeping history of the Union Army of the Potomac, spiced with anecdotes from the soldiers and officers.
Author Vincent L. Burns gives a sweeping history of the Union Army of the Potomac, spiced with anecdotes from the soldiers and officers.
Peter Tsouras has written a fascinating book on Maj. Gen. George H. Sharpe and the Creation of American Military Intelligence in the Civil War.
After the battle of Antietam, a special ammunition train set a new speed record as it raced through York County on its way from Washington to Hagerstown.
A black Civil War veteran from York, Lewis Butler, died in 1903 at the reported age of 104. What do his service records indicate?
The Central Hotel in downtown Hanover, Pennsylvania, was a popular stopping place through much of
Maj. Gen. George Brinton McClellan was one of the more enigmatic military officers in American
“Grant the Butcher.” It was a derisive sobriquet that Union general Ulysses S. Grant would
James Ashworth was born in 1836 in the town of Bury in Lancashire, a rural