Howison Hill in December 1862 provided a significant platform for Confederate artillery, including a 30-pounder
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Remnants of old Civil War earthworks line Lee Drive at the Fredericksburg battlefield in Northern
In the fall of 1862, 150 years ago, Confederate Lt. Gen. Stonewall Jackson anchored the
A late afternoon AMTRAK passenger train speeds through Hamilton’s Crossing just south of Fredericksburg, Virginia.
Yellow Tavern was the final battle in the Civil War for famed Confederate cavalry general
Manassas National Battlefield Park is a leisurely drive from my home in York, Pennsylvania, down
“Grant the Butcher.” It was a derisive sobriquet that Union general Ulysses S. Grant would
The Watt House is preserved on a section of the old Gaines Mill battlefield from
Postwar photograph of the Rev. Harrison Monroe Strickler, formerly a lieutenant in the Confederate Army.
Sixteen-year-old Franklin Gilmore was a corporal in Company A of the 155th Pennsylvania, an infantry