New Union commander ‘Fighting Joe’ Hooker planned to encircle Robert E. Lee at the Virginia crossroads hamlet of Chancellorsville. The plan seemed to be working perfectly, until….
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An Echo of the Civil War In Present-Day Brooklyn
On a leafy side street in present-day Brooklyn, a faint echo of the Civil War can still be heard.
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The Taking of Burnside Bridge
While Union commander George McClellan fumed and the Battle of Antietam hung in the […]
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Rebel Stand at Drewry’s Bluff
While Union Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan’s Army of the Potomac slowly advanced on Richmond in May 1862, the Union Navy made its own play to seize the Confederate capital.
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Eyewitness: America’s Civil War
Confederate Captain Charles Bruce kept his father apprised of conditions during the crucial Peninsula campaign.
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Hancock’s ‘Well-Conducted Fizzle’
With Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia stubbornly
clinging to Petersburg,Ulysses S. Grant decided to cut its
vital rail lines. To perform the surgery, he selected one of
the North’s proven heroes—’Hancock the Superb.’
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The Lightning Brigade Saves the Day
Armed with their new, lethal seven-shot Spencer rifles, Wilder’s Lightning Brigade was all that stood between the Union Army and the looming disaster at Chickamauga Creek.
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Ewell Seizes the Day at Winchester
One month after Stonewall Jackson’s death at Chancellorsville, Robert E. Lee turned to Stonewall’s trusted lieutenant, Richard Ewell, to cover his invasion of the North. Was ‘Old Bald Head’ up to the challenge?
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Return To The Killing Ground
Brash, bombastic John Pope tempted fate by returning to the old battleground at Manassas. He thought he had caught Robert E. Lee napping. He was wrong.
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Last-Ditch Rebel Stand at Petersburg
After nearly 10 months of trench warfare, Confederate resistance at Petersburg, Va., suddenly collapsed. Desperate to save his army, Robert E. Lee called on his soldiers for one last miracle.