William Harvey Carney actions amid some of the most intense combat of the Civil War would earn him the respect of his fellow ...

Lee, and the Union Army of the Potomac under General George Meade, fought what may have been the most crucial battle of the war. If the South had won a major victory, some historians believe that ...

Throughout much of the Civil War, a key Union ... army, and proceed 35 miles to Richmond. General Burnside's campaign at Fredericksburg did not go as planned, in part because the battle introduced ...

Nicknamed "Fighting Joe" for his reputed exploits in the Battle of Williamsburg ... Hooker traveled east to rejoin the Union army. Refused at first, Hooker wrote an impassioned letter to Abraham ...