With the Combahee River Raid of 1863, Harriet Tubman earned her nickname "Moses" all over again—and became the first woman in ...

A Civil War map in the National Archives in College Park, Maryland reads, “S. E. Missouri, Country Around Ironton” on its ...

At Antietam and Gettysburg, the Union successfully repelled Confederate invasions of the North. Although the Union had been steadily seizing Confederate territory in the Western Theater since the ...

As with any civil strife, the war was marked by excruciating ironies. Robert E. Lee became a legend in the Confederate army only after turning down an offer to command the entire Union force.

On both sides, the Civil War ... their actions in war. Some would die in battles; others would go on to become political figures in the healing nation. This section displays objects used by or ...

While skirmishes between Union and Confederate soldiers would continue, the surrender at Appomattox signaled the end of the Civil War was near ... that includes a map of the grounds plus snippets ...

At the time of the Civil War ... those in the North who opposed the war effort and sought negotiated peace with the Confederacy. By 1864, coverage of the Union victories by the special artists ...

The course and character of the Civil War and its effects on the American people. Standard 2A: The student understands how the resources of the Union and Confederacy affected the course of the war.

Guests at the Kennesaw Mountain Battlefield National Park were transported back to the mid-1800s to re-examine when the Civil ...

Back in May 1865, the American Civil War drew to a close after the major Confederate armies surrendered to the North. After the war ended, the Union added 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments to the ...

Unionists responded with their own verses. Augustine Duganne, a New York legislator, soldier and poet, asked in an 1863 poem: ...

Megan Kate Nelson, author of “The Three-Cornered War: The Union, the Confederacy, and Native Peoples in the Fight for the West,” will speak on “The American Civil War in the Desert Southwest ...