Blanton, a senior military archivist at the National Archives in Washington, specializes in 19th century Army records, particularly those of the Civil War. It was the early ’90s when she first ...

Finally, it was Parker, the American Indian who could not enlist as a private, who had risen so far as to draft the final documents for Gen. Robert E. Lee's surrender to Grant at Appomattox Court ...

Four years after the war broke out in South Carolina, 600,000 American's paid the ultimate price for freedom, the war ended in April 1865 with Gen. Robert E. Lee surrendering his army to Gen ...

This interesting study of the Civil War, well-timed for the sesquicentennial, comes from one of the world’s foremost military historians. Keegan is better than many U.S. historians at capturing the ...

This year begins the Civil War Sesquicentennial. It is a time when many reflect and relive the events of the last war that took place on American soil. In telling the Army’s Story “One Soldier ...

Meanwhile, the seemingly endless civil war has ensnared hundreds of young soldiers. Lalsaid said he could not remember a time when there was peace in Afghanistan.

To compile a list of the monthly wage of soldiers of every rank fighting in the Civil War, 24/7 Tempo reviewed a report by the data site Statista, which drew statistics from the American ...

Modern American business and government were shaped directly and indirectly by a military model of administration During the war, writes Mark R. Wilson in "The Business of Civil War." ...