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LeFevre has used the misspelling “Fort Sumpter” which was found in many 19th Century references including an April 1851 article published by the New York Times.

On April 12-14, 1861, the first shots of what would become the Civil War were fired at…

On July 18, 1863, the Second Battle of Fort Wagner was engaged at Morris Island, south of Charleston Harbor, South Carolina. At that time, a serious question persisted in the minds of the people of the North whether black troops would indeed fight…

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…

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…

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…

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)…