4 During the Virginia campaigns of 1862, two men made their military reputations ... Refugee life in the second year of the Civil War was laborious for Judith Brockenbrough McGuire, her feeble ...

In the summer of 1862, Lee made the Army of Northern Virginia his own -- instilling ... not slavery, caused the Civil War, and that Confederate soldiers were heroic and defeated militarily only ...

The year 1862 saw the birth of modern warfare and the transformation of Lincoln's war to preserve the Union ... McClellan's ill-fated campaign on the Virginia Peninsula, where his huge army ...

At the time of the Civil War, camera shutters were too ... Frank Vizetelly was nearly killed at Fredericksburg, Virginia, in December 1862, when a “South Carolinian had a portion of his head ...

This lecture includes several men from Southeast Minnesota who served with various regiments of United States Colored infantry, heavy artillery, light artillery and engineers. Their units patrolled ...

The organization is deemed the “largest open air museum,” with more than 1,500 sites across Virginia ... s place in Civil War ...

Although no Civil War battles took place in Rhode Island, a hospital in Portsmouth, Rhode Island played a large role in ...