Pennsylvania was Robert E. Lee’s target in September 1862. But Maryland and George McClellan […]
Posted inStories
Her War: Fighting Sarah Thompson
Union troops in Confederate territory opposition from secessionist women. Confederates, expected however, hadn’t anticipated […]
Posted inReview
America’s Civil War Review: Birth of a Nation
D. W. Griffith’s technologically brilliant, virulently racist film, Birth of a Nation, is the […]
Posted inStories
Crossing Over the Rappahannock River
Two Union officers discover bridging the Rappahannock River at Fredericksburg is even more difficult […]
Posted inStories
Fiasco at Fredericksburg
Offensive action. That’s what Abraham Lincoln wanted from his new commander in November 1862. […]
Posted inStories
Soldiers and Statesmen
The war officially ended in 1865, but would play a role in politics for […]
Posted inStories
The Burning in Shenandoah Valley
Phil Sheridan determined to show the rebels a hot time in the Shenandoah Valley. […]
Posted inStories
Grant’s Obnoxious Order
As with so many prickly issues of the Civil War, the controversy between Ulysses S. Grant and the Jews had its roots in the curse of cotton.
Posted inStories
Her War: No more driver’s lash for me
At the very birth of the republic, Thomas Jefferson expressed his fear that slavery […]
Posted inStories
The French Are Coming!
During the American Revolutionary War a French fleet tried turning the tables on the British by invading the Channel Island of Jersey