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 »

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 »

The Battle of Shiloh was a lost opportunity for the Confederates, but today, Shiloh National Military Park is a must-see for Civil War enthusiasts.   More »

This week, author and Civil War Quarterly editor Roy Morris Jr. shares with us his personal list of the main Civil War generals who defined the war and shaped its outcome for the North and the South.   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 »

Ulysses S. Grant led Union forces to victory over the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia in the Civil War and became President of the United States.   More »