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 ...

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 ...

(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 ...

With Louisiana’s militias off fighting in Virginia and Tennessee, the job of defending the Crescent City fell to two forts ...

Today was day two of the annual “Spring Civil War Encampment” at the Fort Scott National Historic Site. The public was ...

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 ...