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Wikimedia Commons/Christophe cagé The First Shot of the Civil War at Fort Sumter Confederate Lieutenant Henry S. Farley pulled the trigger of a large...
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Wikimedia Commons/Christophe cagé The First Shot of the Civil War at Fort Sumter Confederate Lieutenant Henry S. Farley pulled the trigger of a large...
Wikimedia Commons/Harper's Weekly Freedman’s Village in Arlington, Virginia The U.S. government built Freedman’s Village in June 1863 on land taken from Confederate General Robert...
Shutterstock The Place Where America’s Bloodiest War Finally Ended At Appomattox Court House National Historical Park in Virginia, you can walk where the Civil...
Wikimedia Commons/Unknown author The Lawrence Massacre Most people in Lawrence, Kansas woke up to gunfire on August 21, 1863. William Quantrill’s Confederate guerrillas had...
Wikimedia Commons/NewMexicophotographer1 The Battle of Glorieta Pass, 1862 Texas soldiers pushed north into New Mexico dreaming of gold and glory. Union forces blocked their...
Wikimedia Commons/Miscellaneous Items in High Demand, PPOC, Library of Congress The Sultana Steamboat Disaster The Sultana steamboat blew up on April 27, 1865, killing...
Shutterstock Chancellorsville, Virginia Stonewall Jackson’s flanking maneuver at Chancellorsville was brilliant. His troops crushed the Union right wing in minutes. But victory turned tragic...
Wikimedia Commons/Elisa.rolle The Robert Smalls House, South Carolina On a foggy Charleston morning in 1862, enslaved pilot Robert Smalls pulled off one of the...
Shutterstock Pea Ridge, Arkansas Civil War history books skip over the Cherokee soldiers who bled at Pea Ridge. They fought in war paint and...
Shutterstock The Big South Fork National River Big South Fork looks peaceful today, but these Tennessee and Kentucky mountains have seen their share of...