at [email protected] for details. Frontal assaults on an entrenched position rarely work. I get the idea, throwing a massive group of men at the enemy’s main line, designed to overwhelm them ...

and Fredericksburg, Virginia. There was scarcely a family in the South that did not lose a son or brother or father. As with any civil strife, the war was marked by excruciating ironies.

Howard Pyle’s "The Battle of Nashville" captures the harrowing advance of Minnesota soldiers through smoke and mud in a pivotal Civil War clash. If the Minnesota State Capitol were on fire ...

Military records reveal that women fought—and died—in all the major battles of the Civil War, participating in clashes in Antietam, Fredericksburg, Gettysburg, Shiloh, and Vicksburg ...