With firsthand accounts, letters and diary entries from the Carter House Archives, local historia...

Join Charleston historian Doug Bostick as he traces the political turmoil of 1860 and early 1861,...

In 1864, Union troops controlled much of the South, Sherman's men marched with impunity through G...

The Battle of Westport, Missouri (today, part of Kansas City) was the largest Civil War battle we...

During the Civil War, Springfield was a frontier community of about 1,500 people, but it was the ...

Prior to the Civil War, Atlanta was at the intersection of four rail lines, rendering the Georgia...

One of the nation's most colorful leaders, Confederate general John Hunt Morgan, took his cavalry...

The Chancellorsville Campaign was the true high water mark for both the Confederate Army of North...

The only state born as a result of the Civil War, West Virginia was the most divided state in the...

In this engaging volume, local historian Douglas Bostick reveals the unacknowledged history of th...

Join historian John Hoptak as he narrates the critical Battle of South Mountain, long overshadowe...

Gettysburg is America's most famous battle. Fought on the first three days of July 1863, it was o...

South Carolinians have long desired a route for water navigation from Columbia to Charleston. An ...

Sent to the United States as a war correspondent for the 'Illustrated London News,' Frank Vizetel...

The Battle of Brandy Station was the largest cavalry battle ever fought on North American soil. A...

June 1910, Charleston, South Carolina. A Jewish merchant, Max Lubelsky, lay murdered in his cloth...

In so many words, General Lee laid out the challenge of defending the young Southern Republic and...

When Louisiana seceded from the Union on January 26, 1861, no one doubted that a battle to contro...

Though the First and Second Battles of Newtonia did not match epic Civil War battles like Antieta...

Striking out from Knoxville, Tennessee in late March of 1865, Major General George Stoneman unlea...

In February 1862, after defeats at Bull Run and at Wilson's Creek in Missouri, the Union army was...

After months of reverses, the Union army was going on the offensive in the spring of 1862 as Gene...

Virginia's Shenandoah Valley was known as the 'Breadbasket of the Confederacy' due to its ample h...

Major General William T. Sherman's march from Savannah, Georgia, to Columbia, South Carolina, was...

Local civilians and Civil War veterans felt a special connection to Fort Davidson long after the ...

The Battle of Fredericksburg

Gettysburg is America's most famous battle. Fought on the first three days of July 1863, it was o...

Douglas Bostick, historian and former director of Save the Light, Inc., recounts the stories of t...

Told through a collection of first-person soldier accounts, the history of this Civil War battle ...

Andersonville (Camp Sumter) Civil War prison was only in operation for little more than one year,...

Nestled between the Allegheny and Blue Ridge Mountains, Virginia's Shenandoah Valley enjoyed trem...

The Battle of Fredericksburg is known as the most disastrous defeat the Federal Army of the Potom...

Join William C. Connery as he recounts the notable events and battles that occurred in Northern V...

A fascinating documentation of the Battle of Fisher's Hill, explaining this pivotal Civil War bat...

Although no great Civil War battles were fought in Lexington, Kentucky, the city afforded some of...

In the spring of 1865, George Stoneman's cavalry division departed Salisbury, North Carolina, wit...

When the call went out in 1862 for volunteers for Delaware's 4th Infantry Regiment, a number of m...

Join historian Doug Bostick as he tells the story of the siege of Charleston, the longest siege o...

In February 1864, General William Sooy Smith led a force of over seven thousand cavalry on a raid...