The skillful and aggressive employment of mobile artillery ensured U.S. dominance on every major battlefield of the Mexican conflict.   More »

During the Battle of Lundy’s Lane, the trouble for the Americans was the center. However, the British managed to fight their way to the captured guns.   More »

At the First Battle of Bull Run during July 1861, the Federals had a good plan that very nearly worked…   More »

Few Union men saw more of the Civil War or its principal commanders than Medal of Honor awardee Horace Porter.   More »

The larger-than-life bronze figure of Winfield Scott Hancock astride his horse has been a staple of Gettysburg’s Cemetery Hill for over a century.   More »

Colonel Patrick Kelly was a beloved Union commander who led the Irish Brigade into the Wheatfield at the Battle of Gettysburg.   More »

This Civil War Timeline covers the events in late 1861, in which piecemeal military operations began to take shape, setting the stage for future conflicts between the North and the South.   More »

Everyone, it seemed, got involved in the frenzy for ever-more-fancy uniforms and accoutrements, from Napoleon on down.   More »

Ulysses S. Grant was working as a clerk in his family’s leather business in Galena, Illinois when the first shots of the American Civil War were fired.   More »

“The Anaconda Plan” was devised by General Winfield Scott and President Lincoln to squeeze the Confederacy into submission by blockading the South’s seaports.   More »