At Appomattox: "Rejoicing as I Never Heard Before Nor Ever Expect to Hear Again on This Earth."

A Northern Nurse Describes the Death of a Southern Lieutenant After Gettysburg

"The Most Popular Officer I Have Ever Seen at West Point"

“These Gallant Men in Blue and Gray Sit All About Us Here,” 1913

“The Two Gray Lines Swept Silently and Swiftly On”

First View of Robert E. Lee as Commander of the Army of Northern Virginia

Appomattox: "We of the Line Never Had the Remotest Idea of a Surrender"

At Gettysburg, Union Soldiers Aid Wounded Confederates

At Gettysburg, Rufus Franks of the 4th Alabama Appeared Slightly Wounded. It Was Far Worse.

"Gray Bearded Men Weeping Over Their Regimental Colors," 1889

Frederick Douglass Thanks a Telegrapher for Saving His Life

This Soldier and His Comrades Tried to Stop Sherman’s March Through Georgia

An Aging Veteran and a Mothballed Warship Get a Second Chance

At Devil's Den, a Texan's "Spectacular Display of Reckless Courage"

Thomas Jefferson Responds to a Request to Abolish Slavery

The Abolitionist Who Asked Thomas Jefferson to Help End Slavery

What If Your Gettysburg Guides Were Three Officers Who Fought In the Battle?

Theodore Roosevelt on the Meaning of the Civil War

A Wounded Lieutenant Asks Dr. Evins to Cut Off His Mangled Leg

Why Did the Confederacy Fail? The Son of a Southern Officer Explains.

A Confederate General Criticizes Lee's Leadership at Gettysburg

On His First Day as a Lieutenant, He Led His Men into Pickett's Charge

The Dimick Rifle and “The Regiment of the West”

Words Exchanged in an Ambulance Between Two Wounded Soldiers, Union and Confederate

Captain Ramsey and the Birth of the “True Blues”

The General Credited With "Contrabands" as a Term for Enslaved People

From Gettysburg in 1863 to the Streets of New York City in 1865

One of the Citadel's Best Officers Under Fire at Fort Sumter, 1863

The Young Angel of the Wards

The Nurse Who Became a Hospital Patient