In the forbidding countryside of Virginia’s Wilderness, Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee stumbled blindly toward their first wartime encounter.   More »

To get the most out of a trip to the Battle of Gettysburg National Military Park, it’s necessary to spend more than just one day.   More »

How the native Kentuckian and hardened war veteran rejoined the Army of Northern Virginia just in time for the bloodiest battle of the American Civil War.   More »

By Eric Niderost

July 3, 1863, dawned clear and bright, the warm sun promising even greater heat to come. By noon, temperatures were already in the low 90s, a typically hot and humid summer day in southern Pennsylvania. The action on the ground would soon get even hotter. Five days earlier,   More »

Named by locals, Devil’s Den saw the Devil’s work during the Battle of Gettysburg as Blue and Gray fought desperately among the boulders.   More »

Although the craft of photography was still in its infancy, battlefield photographers managed to make lasting record of the conflict.   More »

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

America’s first military museum and FDR’s historic home are the two military history sites in New York State that you shouldn’t miss.   More »

The proud Regulars in Company H, 4th U.S. Infantry, made a galant stand in the blood-soaked Wheatfield on the second day of the Battle of Gettysburg.   More »

The popular picnic ground at Culp’s Hill would find itself the focus of much grimmer activities during the Battle of Gettysburg.   More »