DK - The American Civil War

Over the bridge The locomotive “Fire Fly,” built for the U.S.M.R.R. in 1862 by the Philadelphia-based Norris Locomotive Works, c ...

Communications The telegraph system revolutionized command and control procedures during the Civil War. Both the Union and the C ...

COMMUNICATIONS telegraph companies before the war, and included a significant percentage of women. Military supervision of an es ...

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GREAT INVENTORS OF THE AGE This pantheon of American inventors was painted by Christian Schussele in 1862 under the title Men of ...

Guerrillas and Partisans The formal battles of the Civil War were accompanied by many smaller-scale raiding operations against m ...

GUERRILLAS AND PARTISANS reprisals against civilians who had cooperated with Union forces. Union officers in parts of Virginia, ...

their technological advantage was nullified by the Rebel numbers and terrain. A determined midday assault by the 1st Kansas Colo ...

OPERATIONS IN THE INDIAN TERRITORY AND TEXAS Most of Texas remained in Confederate hands to the end of the war. The valuable eas ...

On November 19, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln delivered a brief speech that would soon become one of the most famous in Americ ...

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GRANT, SHERMAN, AND TOTAL WAR 1864 A cohesive strategy in place at last, the Union pressed the Confederacy so hard that by year’ ...

y 1864, the war had become a grinding, exhausting struggle, but once Ulysses S. Grant was elevated to overall command of the Uni ...

Johnston was soon replaced by the aggressive General John Bell Hood, Confederate attacks around the city’s perimeter were repuls ...

GRANT, SHERMAN, AND TOTAL WAR 1864 JANUARY Though little large-scale fighting takes place, there is much skirmishing from Virgin ...

TIMELINE 1864 JULY 11 Confederate General Jubal Early leads his small Army of the Valley to the outskirts of Washington, D.C., c ...

Republicans, convinced Lincoln had mismanaged the war and could not be re-elected, were decamping to the Radical Democracy Party ...

LINCOLN PREVAILS Lincoln’s second inaugural address, on March 4, 1865, stressed that Reconstruction of the defeated Confederacy ...

The Wilderness Campaign The duel between generals Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant commenced with a battle in a tangled woodla ...