The fighting of the American Civil War ultimately reached nearly every state in the Northern and Southern territories, with key battles fought in places like Pennsylvania, Virginia, and South ...

The Battle of Fort Sumter in April 1861 marked the explosive start of the American Civil War. Confederate forces ... thrown us a curveball': Largest-ever map of space reveals we might have gotten ...

Harper's Ferry, West Virginia (top) and Chickamauga, Georgia (bottom) were the sites of two Civil War battles. Eliot Dudik In “Poem of Wonder at the Resurrection of the Wheat,” Walt Whitman ...

The American Civil War was the first major conflict ... from snapping even the most graphic of post-battle images to illustrate the horrors of war. Several of the images in this gallery are ...

At the time of the Civil War, camera shutters were too slow to record ... could neither maneuver the rough terrain nor record images in the midst of battle. So newspaper publishers hired amateur ...

However, these staggering numbers still offer profound insight into the immense tragedy experienced by the American people throughout the Civil War.

American Idol star Noah Thompson visits Chesterfield County Jail inmates in HARP program These battlefields, which span nearly 150 acres across Henrico, were important sites during the Civil War.

Considered the turning point of the Civil War, the Battle of Gettysburg was also the bloodiest, amassing an estimated 51,000 casualties. The three-day conflict took place in July 1863 at what is ...