DK - The American Civil War

Court House, a hamlet located some 10 miles (16km) to the southeast of the Wilderness battlefield. It stood at a crossroads that ...

Grant hoped to begin his maneuver around Lee’s right flank without being detected by his adversary. He slipped most of the army ...

Confederate bodies were churned many layers deep and in the mud writhed the wounded. Soon the West Angle would understandably be ...

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During the Battle of Spotsylvania—May 8–12, 1864—Union General Winfield S. Hancock seized Confederate entrenchments known as the ...

I n January 1858, Mathew Brady opened a photographic studio in Washington, D. C., hiring a young Scotsman named Alexander Gardne ...

In the South, A. D. Lytle of Louisiana worked for the Confederate Secret Service, slyly documenting Union activities in occupied ...

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MATHEW BRADY AT GETTYSBURG The photographer Mathew Brady and his team reached Gettysburg some days after the end of the fighting ...

Burnside’s Ninth Corps tried crossing at Ox Ford, only to be stopped by the strong Rebel defenses. By evening it was apparent th ...

Grant’s council of war Wreathed in cigar smoke, Grant holds a council of war on the pews from Massaponax Church near Spotsylvani ...

Jeb Stuart W ith his plumed hat and golden spurs, his setters, and tame raccoon, James Ewell Brown Stuart seemed more the leader ...

Confederate soldiers into battle lines west of the village. He might indeed have made a superb corps commander of infantry, but ...

Pistols Civil War soldiers were often photographed clutching a pistol, though in reality many infantrymen found them too cumbers ...

PISTOLS ■(2 DERINGER ■(1 ARMY COLT HOLSTERED ■^ .32 CALIBER SMITH & WESSON OLD ARMY MODEL 2 ■ .44 REMINGTON ARMY ■^ SPILLER ...

Rebel Victories While Grant battled Lee in eastern Virginia, his strategy elsewhere broke down. The Confederates penned in Gener ...

REBEL VICTORIES The failures of Sigel and Butler not only allowed Breckinridge and Beauregard to reinforce Lee, they also gave t ...

The parole-and-exchange cartel that had existed in the early part of the war collapsed in 1863, and in April 1864, General Grant ...

most infamous of Civil War prison camps, but all of them shared, to an extent, its sins. Over 400,000 men were at some point hel ...

EYEWITNESS May–July 1864 Intolerable conditions The starving inmates of Andersonville were held in an exposed, makeshift facilit ...