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Morris Island, in the south side of Charleston Harbor, seemed to Union Gen. Quincy Gillmore to be the key to capturing the place where the…

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Many people think the American Civil War ended with the surrenders of the Army of Northern Virginia and the Army of Tennessee in April 1865.…

The 1862 battle for Roanoke Island, N.C., was one of the earliest eastern victories for the Union. Led by Gen. Ambrose E. Burnside, a flotilla…

The winter of 1864-65 was unusually cold and dreary, and life was a struggle for soldiers in the trenches at Petersburg, Va. “The cold north…

Confederate Capt. William Blackford described Gen. Stonewall Jackson instructing his officers to attack the Union column marching along the road to Centreville, Va., in the…

“The truth is,” wrote Union Gen., William T. Sherman, shortly before leaving Savannah, “the whole army is burning with an insatiable desire to wreak vengeance…

Gen. Felix K. Zollicoffer was a near-sighted newspaperman and completely out of his element as a Confedeerate brigade commander in charge of the defense of…

It was Sunday April 12, 1863 when the 9th New York Zouaves had arrived at Suffolk, Virginia. The Zouaves wet and tired from the long…

Capturing the Flags of the 113th New York Infantry The One Hundred Thirteenth New York Volunteer Infantry had been mustered into federal service in the…