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The seven days of battles for the Confederate capital of Richmond started with the Battle of Seven Pines and continued through the Battles of Gaines’s Mill, Mechanicsville, and several others, culminating with the Battle of Malvern Hill on July 1,…

Relieved as head of all Union troops after Fredericksburg, General Ambrose Burnside (shown at right), was back at the head of his IX Corps. Burnside was known for his distinctive facial hair—an extravagantly bushy beard without hair on his chin. In a…

The Battle of Hampton Roads, on March 8 and 9, 1862, is often referred to as the Battle of the Ironclads. The USS Merrimack was captured by the Confederates, converted to an ironclad, and renamed the CSS Virginia (shown on the left, belching smoke)…

Along with the fall of Vicksburg on July 4, the Battle of Gettysburg, fought July 1-3, 1863, was the turning point for the Union in the American Civil War. I designed this piece as a triptych to be framed as three separate paintings displayed…

In the wake of the Battle of Antietam and General George McClellan’s unwillingness to move his army in pursuit of the retreating Confederates, President Abraham Lincoln removed McClellan from his position as commander of the Army of the Potomac and…

After the fall of Atlanta, General John Bell Hood, who had been defending the city, decided to take his 30,000-strong Army of Tennessee and make a concentrated effort to recapture Tennessee, thus disrupting General William Tecumseh Sherman’s supply…