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From smoldering battlefields to passion-inflamed politics to fascinating personalities, America’s Civil War goes far beyond what you learned in history class.
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Lies and Subterfuge: There’s More to the Story Behind Seven Pines | Click the image to read our story:
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Joe Johnston and James Longstreet manipulated the truth to deflect blame for the Confederate loss.
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Civil War Generals Never Forgot the Blood and Lost Friends in the US Showdown with Mexico | Click the image to read our story:
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At the outset of the Civil War, generals on both sides were not surprised by the bloodshed they witnessed.
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This British Colonel Traveled with Robert E. Lee at Gettysburg. He’d Already Had His Share of Surprises. | Click the image to read our story:
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Arthur Fremantle stumbled upon a murder while in the Rio Grande.
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Dan Sickles Insisted that His Gettysburg Antics Saved the Union. Was He Right? | Click the image to read our story:
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Sickles nearly cost the Union Army at Gettysburg by breaking George Meade's orders.
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Gettysburg Had a Lasting Impact on Its Least Known Participants — Its Civilians | Click the image to read our story:
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Travel along the famous sites of Gettysburg, from the Cashtown Inn to Lee's headquarters, from the eyes of the locals.
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These Hoosier Heroes at Gettysburg Were Among the Last Men Standing in the Civil War | Click the image to read our story:
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Brig. Gen. Joseph K.F. Mansfield remarked that the 20th Indiana "could do longer without food...eat more when they got it; could suffer more without being disabled."
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This Excelsior Brigade Soldier Became an Accidental Journalist | Click the image to read our story:
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'Dear Uncles' collects Arthur McKinstry's Civil War letters, which his uncles regularly published in their newspaper.
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The Confederate Bee Brothers: Unforgettable Legacies For Very Converse Reasons | Click the image to read our story:
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One gave Stonewall Jackson his nickname. One was dubbed "the poorest excuse for a Gen that I ever saw."
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Grant Didn’t Fit the Eastern Theater Mold — Turns Out That’s Exactly What Lincoln Wanted | Click the image to read our story:
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Walking a tightrope on his first visit to Washington and the Army of the Potomac, the steadfast, unpretentious Grant quickly proved Lincoln had found the right man for the task ahead.
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A Union Rebel Inside Robert E. Lee’s Family | Click the image to read our story:
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Col. Louis H. Marshall stayed true to the Stars and Stripes and forever became an outcast to his family.
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During Reconstruction Southern Planters Called on the US Army to Enforce an Old Status Quo | Click the image to read our story:
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In a Louisiana parish, white elites sought military help to deny newly freed Blacks some of their rights.
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Robert E. Lee Endured a Precipitous Reset in Maryland | Click the image to read our story:
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Though the Lost Orders forced the Confederate commander to fight on unfavorable ground at Sharpsburg, he survived the bloody clash with his army intact.
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The Novel ‘Knork’ Helped Civil War Amputees Eat | Click the image to read our story:
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The Civil War saw many advances in devices to aid amputees.
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The Poignant Tale Behind a Celebrated Civil War Sketch | Click the image to read our story:
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To artist Edwin Forbes, William Jackson of the 12th New York was an everyman Union soldier, a “solemn lad… toughened by campaigning.” There was much more to Jackson’s story.
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A Battle Ulysses S. Grant Couldn’t Quite Win | Click the image to read our story:
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As president, the former Union general did all he could to stop the KKK but ultimately came up short.
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The Poignant Tale Behind a Celebrated Civil War Sketch
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To artist Edwin Forbes, William Jackson of the 12th New York was an everyman Union soldier, a “solemn lad… toughened by campaigning.” There was much more to Jackson’s story.
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For Southern Antagonists in the Civil War, a Kindred Desire for Peace Goes Awry | Click the image to read our story:
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Kentucky’s John Crittenden, Virginia’s John Robertson found common ground too late as the prospects for peace evaded in 1860-61.
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For Southern Antagonists in the Civil War, a Kindred Desire for Peace Goes Awry
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Kentucky’s John Crittenden, Virginia’s John Robertson found common ground too late as the prospects for peace evaded in 1860-61.
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The Novel ‘Knork’ Helped Civil War Amputees Eat | Click the image to read our story:
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The Civil War saw many advances in devices to aid amputees.
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Civil War Art, in the Round and Mobile | Click the image to read our story:
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Polyoramas—well-traveled predecessors of the popular postwar cycloramas—captivated audiences both north and south.
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