We usually envision blue and gray armies battling it out east of Arizona when we think of the American Civil War ... west to California after it became a state in 1850. Attempting to create a ...

The Civil War was a military, cultural, political, and economic milestone in American history. For four years the nation was in a bloody divide that extended from the East Coast to the pioneer West ...

The Civil War was fought in 10,000 places, from Valverde, New Mexico, and Tullahoma, Tennessee, to St. Albans, Vermont, and Fernandina on the Florida coast. More than 3 million Americans fought in ...

How brilliant a military leader are you? One of the most important battles of the U.S. Civil War -- and indeed of all U.S. history -- was the battle of Gettysburg. During the three days of July 1 ...

Timothy Smith, an award-winning author of the Civil War in the West, offers us this look at ... He argues Johnston could have been the Robert E. Lee of the West had he not died during the battle of ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Garry Adelman, a historian, rates nine American Civil War battles in movies. He comments on the Civil War-era artillery and rifles on display in "Free State of ...