Confederate Lt. Gen. James Longstreet faced a daunting task trying to dislodge Maj. Gen. Ambrose Burnside’s Federals from Knoxville, Tennessee.   More »

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 »

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 »

Polish-born Union Army Colonel Wlodzimierz Kryzanowski showed great skill handling his troops during key battles of the American Civil War.   More »

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 »

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 »

On April 17, 1863, Union Colonel Benjamin Grierson led his cavalrymen southward from La Grange, Tennessee, into northern Mississippi on a daring raid.   More »

Union troops trapped in Southern Tennessee faced starvation with only one line of resupply remaining, setting the stage for wheeler’s raid.   More »

Civil War mortars were the feared precision artillery weapon of the Victorian Age.   More »

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 »