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It was 1863. Union gunboats were a threat to the Texas interior because of rivers that emptied into the Gulf...

In an earlier post we got a 10 year old girl’s view of the war as Sherman started his destructive...

After capturing Atlanta in September 1864 during the Civil War, Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman,  ordered the destruction of all...

Randolph Harrison McKim enlisted as a Confederate private at the beginning of the Civil War. He rose through the ranks...

Here is another tale of Private Sam Watkins, Company H, 1st Tennessee: “It was Christmas. John Barleycorn was general-in-chief. Our...

David Johnston was 15 when Lincoln was elected.  By April of the next year he was a Confederate Private in...

Many have heard of the U.S. Army’s use of camels in the old west, well before the Civil War.  In...

Southern Irishmen from all over fought for the Confederacy, but Louisiana sent the most into the fray.  New Orleans was...

It was 1907, and the US Senate was debating what was to be the official name for the Civil War....