While many may consider Gettysburg to be the defining battle of the American Civil War, that’s usually because people simply ...

This story appears in the May 2012 issue of National Geographic magazine. At the time of the Civil War, camera shutters ... nor record images in the midst of battle. So newspaper publishers ...

The American Civil War was the first major conflict ... from snapping even the most graphic of post-battle images to illustrate the horrors of war. Several of the images in this gallery are ...

Multiple Henrico County battlefields will be further protected and persevered through a National Park Service (NPS) grant worth over $340,000 combined.

Nau III Center for Civil War History. Union forces had achieved a series of ... calling the project “the single greatest threat to Manassas National Battlefield Park in three decades.” (Wheeler, a ...

Harper's Ferry, West Virginia (top) and Chickamauga, Georgia (bottom) were the sites of two Civil War battles. Eliot Dudik In “Poem of Wonder at the Resurrection of the Wheat,” Walt Whitman ...

The three days of conflict at Gettysburg resulted in 51,000 casualties, making it the bloodiest battle of the Civil War. Courtesy ... 74 congressionally-mandated national cemeteries by 1871 ...

The Tennessee Wars Commission, the Tennessee Historical Commission division responsible for preserving the state’s ...

HAMILTON COUNTY, Tenn. (WDEF) — The Tennessee Wars Commission has awarded grants to preserve key Civil War battlefield sites in Hamilton County. This funding is part of the Civil War Sites ...

The Tennessee Wars Commission, the Tennessee Historical Commission division responsible for preserving the state’s significant military history, has announced the Civil War Sites Preservation Fund (CW ...

I am responding to your recent editorial about the current status of the National Park Service (NPS) as a current volunteer at the Petersburg National Civil War Battlefield (PNB). I was an Army ...