Disaster at Fort Donelson
•April 3, 2018 • Be the First to Comment
Ulysses S. Grant altered the course of the war in the west for the Union Army in February 1862 with the capture of Forts Henry and Donelson. More »
•April 3, 2018 • Be the First to Comment
Ulysses S. Grant altered the course of the war in the west for the Union Army in February 1862 with the capture of Forts Henry and Donelson. More »
•December 9, 2017 • Be the First to Comment
Union General William T. Sherman’s March to the Sea was a defining chapter in the American Civil War; Sherman became remembered in the South as a brutal proponent of total war. More »
•November 8, 2017 • Be the First to Comment
Polish-born Union Army Colonel Wlodzimierz Kryzanowski showed great skill handling his troops during key battles of the American Civil War. More »
•November 6, 2017 • Be the First to Comment
George B. McClellan forced the Confederates in northwestern Virginia to retreat into the Alleghenies in 1861. It fell to Robert E. Lee to bring stability to the situation. More »
•March 20, 2017 • Be the First to Comment
Politician-general Nathaniel Bank’s grand design to capture Shreveport floundered in the mud of the treacherous Red River in the spring of 1864. More »
•March 15, 2017 • Be the First to Comment
On April 17, 1863, Union Colonel Benjamin Grierson led his cavalrymen southward from La Grange, Tennessee, into northern Mississippi on a daring raid. More »
•December 9, 2015 • Be the First to Comment
Union troops trapped in Southern Tennessee faced starvation with only one line of resupply remaining, setting the stage for wheeler’s raid. More »
•October 15, 2015 • Be the First to Comment
Civil War mortars were the feared precision artillery weapon of the Victorian Age. More »
•August 23, 2015 • Be the First to Comment
After both armies blundered into each other at the dry riverbed, the ensuing Battle of Perryville would prove to be a comedy—or tragedy—of errors. More »
•November 16, 2014 • Be the First to Comment
The Battle of Champion’s Hill was a decisive moment in the American Civil War, and it would come to define the careers of many commanders. More »