Overview :They melted like snow on the ground, one officer said--wave after wave of Federal soldiers charging uphill across an open muddy plain. Confe... Read More
Overview :Contributors to this collection, public historians with experience at Civil War battle sites, examine key shifts in the Civil War and the co... Read More
Overview :Jackson, Mississippi, was the third Confederate state capital to fall to Union forces. When Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant captured the importan... Read More
Overview :May 1864. The Army of the Potomac and the Army of Northern Virginia spent three days in brutal close-quarter combat in the Wilderness that l... Read More
Overview :A fully illustrated account of the Vicksburg Campaign, including modern color photography and covering the river war, inland battles, seige ... Read More
Overview :Proceeds from this volume will go to support the Ulysses S. Grant Association and the Grant Monument Association.Ulysses S. Grant stood at t... Read More
Overview :Soldiers called it one of the "waste places of nature" and "a region of gloom"--the Wilderness of Virginia, seventy square miles of dense, s... Read More
Overview :"I intend to fight it out along this line if it takes all summer," Union commander Ulysses S. Grant wrote to Washington after he'd opened hi... Read More
Overview :Some, like Abraham Lincoln, Stonewall Jackson and John Reynolds, have become legendary. Others, like Earl Van Dorn, have become infamous. So... Read More
Overview :By May of 1863, the Stone Wall at the base of Marye's Heights above Fredericksburg loomed large over the Army of the Potomac, haunting its m... Read More
Overview :It has been called Robert E. Lee's supreme moment: riding into the Chancellorsville clearing...the mansion itself aflame in the background..... Read More
Overview :The former general in chief of the Union armies during the Civil War . . . the two-term president of the United States . . . the beloved amb... Read More
Overview :By the spring of 1864, the Army of the Potomac and the Army of Northern Virginia had become battle-hardened, battle-weary foes locked in an ... Read More
Overview :For sixteen days the armies had grappled--a grueling horror-show of nonstop battle, march, and maneuver that stretched through May of 1864. ... Read More
Overview :"May 1863. The Civil War was in its third spring, and Confederate Lt. Gen. Thomas Jonathan Jackson stood at the peak of his fame. He had ari... Read More
Overview :Gettysburg, the largest land battle on the North American continent, has maintained an unshakable grip on the American imagination.Building ... Read More
Overview :"What If...?" Every Civil War armchair general asks the question. Possibilities unfold. Disappointments vanish. Imaginations soar. More ques... Read More
Overview :Often relegated to a backseat by action in the Eastern Theater, the Western Theater is actually where the Federal armies won the Civil War.I... Read More
Overview :"The man to whom the country is most indebted for the great measure of independence is Mr. John Adams. . . . I call him the Atlas of America... Read More
Overview :Popular media can spark the national consciousness in a way that captures people's attention, interests them in history, and inspires them t... Read More