Virginia did not allow Black residents to vote until after the Civil War. But during the war, a group of Black soldiers in ...

GOAL: Revenge on the North for the Union Army's ill treatment of Southerners; an effort to supply the Confederacy with much needed cash and/or to force the North to pull badly needed troops from ...

At Cold Harbor, Grant launched a furious assault against what he thought was a tired and beaten enemy—and suffered a bloody ...

The popular "Yellowstone" TV series, set and filmed in Montana, taps into a lesser-known chapter of the state's history: its ...

1864, after a siege of nearly three months. In part, this victory seemed to shore up Lincoln’s support amongst the Union ...

On Oct. 28, 1864, five brigades of pursuing Union cavalry caught the Confederates and attacked near the brick home owned by Mathew Ritchey. Confederate Brig. Gen. Joe Shelby’s infantry division ...

Many of the war’s earliest casualties were left on the field for days before they died or were removed to hospitals. But both armies soon developed litter corps and ambulance services. They ...

“Voices from Gettysburg: Letters, Papers, and Memoirs from the Greatest Battle of the Civil War,” the latest contribution from Civil War and Abraham Lincoln scholar Allen C. Guelzo, is filled with ...

On July 14, 1864, a group of miners known as the “Four Georgians ... The “HelEEna” pronunciation drew ire from the ...

In 1864, the United States was in the bloody midst of the most ... in states seceding from the U.S. and the Union taking ...

Cleburne was killed during the Battle of Franklin on November 30, 1864. General (Robert E ... Cleburne sided with the Confederate States. He rose from private to general.

In 1864, after three years of bloodshed, former Missouri Gov. Sterling Price, while serving as a Confederate general, presented his plan to invade Missouri, take control of its largest cities and ...