Sympathetic View of Vicksburg's John C. Pemberton

Ulysses S. Grant Shares His Thoughts on the Crisis of 1861

“I Never Expected to Come Out of the Engagement Alive, nor to Bring Any of My Men Out.”

Chamberlain: "We Buried Them Darkly, at Dead of Night, the Sod With Our Bayonets Turning"

"Well Done Noble 151st": The Story of Bowen's Independent Rifles

Black Friday: Help Military Images Support Those on the Front Lines of History

1860: U.S. Grant Supports Lincoln and the Wide-Awakes, and Natural Rights of Free People

A Memorable Thanksgiving Proclamation for a Country in the Midst of a Civil War

A Scotsman Tramped Across the South in 1864 and Reflected on Americans at War and Self-Reliance

"Bold and Brave as a Lion": Ireland's Michael Emmet Urell

A Giant Easter Egg Buried Deep in the Civil War Records at the National Archives

Riding With Forrest and “Eager for the Fray”

Eyewitness to the Death of John Hunt Morgan

Three Soldiers Who Experienced Premonitions of Death

What It Was Like to Be In a Civil War Battle

Lincoln and Lee, April 11-12, 1865

A Louisiana Cavalryman Recalls Longstreet, Hood, and Law at Chickamauga

“He Would Carry an Order Into Hell If I Should Tell Him to Take One There”

The Confederate Scout Who Liked to "Hunt His Prey" Alone—and Became a Cavalry Colonel

Sailors and Marines Spearhead the Ground Assault Against Fort Fisher, January 1865

A Virginian Explains Why He Remained Loyal to the Union and Constitution

William T. Sherman, 1860: "Oh, It Is All Folly, Madness, a Crime Against Civilization"

Bringing to Light "Ein Soldat Aus Sherman's Armee"

A Pennsylvania Bucktail Brigade Member Recalls the First Day in The Wilderness

Gettysburg Caused This General's Brother to Turn Down the Path of Peace

First Combat: Accounts of Fear and Exhilaration That Grips a Soldier’s Heart

General Grant and the Great Pumpkin Pie

In 1803, a Heavenly Voice Visited Joseph Hoag. It Foretold a Bloody Civil War.

As the Cannon Firing Subsided on the Third Day of Gettysburg, “To Do or To Die”

At Gettysburg, He Had a Bad Feeling Before Little Round Top

“I Heard a Faint Call That Sounded Thick and Muddy”

Ferocious Fight for the Colors of the 4th Michigan in Gettysburg's Wheatfield

Lt. Rogers Recovers Captured Guns at Gettysburg

A 1st Corps Staff Officer Recalls Incidents During the First Day of Gettysburg

Cruising in the Vanguard of the Diplomatic Wars, 1863

"Give Me Liberty, or Give Me Death": Rallying Cry In Two Wars

Repulsing Pickett’s Charge: “Here They Come!” “Here They Come!” “Here Comes the Infantry!”

A Boy Lieutenant on the Front Lines of Freedom

He Tried to Save a Wounded Comrade—and Became a Casualty in the Process

A Confederate Captain In Lee's Army Worries About His Wife and Children in North Carolina

U.S. Grant Comments on the Struggle for How America Remembers the Civil War

A POW's Story: "My Goodness, Man, Don’t Go Over There, or the Yankees Will Get You”

"Darkest Hour": Eyewitness Account at Ford's Theater, April 14, 1865

The Road From Gettysburg: Gen. Sedgwick’s Quiet Counsel and a Rebel Heroine

“They Can’t Hit an Elephant at That Distance”: Remembering Gen. Sedgwick’s Fall and Soldiers’ Grief

From Meade’s Council of War to the 6th Corps: A Ride That Could Have Changed Gettysburg

“You Will Never See That Regiment Again”: A Daring Assault at Antietam

Glinting Cutlasses and Flashing Revolvers Off the Savannah Coast

"Old Jack" In Lexington: An Early Impression of Stonewall Jackson

Photo Exploration Uncovers a Quaker Who Finds a Way to Serve the Union Without Violating His Beliefs

In January 1861, a West Pointer on His First Assignment Is Caught in the Middle of Secession

Gettysburg Account: At Armistead's Side When He Fell at Pickett's Charge

It Is a Mystery to Me How Any Man Escaped the Shower of Bullets That Was Poured in Upon Us at Ball

Mathew Brady: “It Is No Holiday Business, This Taking the Likeness of ‘Grim-Visaged War’”

“Our Success Was Complete and Glorious, But My God, How Our Regiment Has Suffered"

What a War Correspondent Saw at Antietam’s Burnside Bridge 48 Hours After the Fighting Ended

A Virginia Cavalryman Who Rode with Stuart Recounts the Gettysburg Campaign

The Last Civil War Veteran To Be President Meets the Moment at Antietam

Eyewitness to the Brutality and Carnage at Antietam (Part 3)

Eyewitness to the Brutality and Carnage at Antietam (Part 2)