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 ...

It provides detailed walking and driving tours for the main monuments, such as the National ... seasoned Civil War historian. With concise facts and anecdotes of war generals during battle ...

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 ...

(WRIC) — Multiple Henrico County battlefields will be further protected and persevered through a National Park Service ... were important sites during the Civil War. Here’s the breakdown ...

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 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 ...