The Civil War was an extremely divisive time in American history that split the North and South into the Union and the ...

Throughout much of the Civil War, a key Union objective ... General Burnside's campaign at Fredericksburg did not go as planned, in part because the battle introduced obstacles his men had never ...

Plus, thousands of Civil War recruits were young ... Jersey “was promoted to sergeant for gallant conduct at the battle of Fredericksburg — since which time the sergeant has become the ...

At the time of the Civil War, camera shutters were too ... At the December 1862 Battle of Fredericksburg, Arthur Lumley, a Dublin-born Irishman working for theNew-York Illustrated News, sketched ...

Military records reveal that women fought—and died—in all the major battles of the Civil War, participating in clashes in Antietam, Fredericksburg, Gettysburg, Shiloh, and Vicksburg ...