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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 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,…

After the battles for Richmond, General George B. McClellan retreated with his Army of the Potomac from the Virginia Peninsula heading north, and General Robert E. Lee decided to engage him. On August 28, 29, and 30, the two armies fought at the…

At this point in the war, the Battle of Mobile Bay fought principally on August 5, 1864, was not of vital significance. The Union Army had already captured and controlled the Mississippi River all the way to New Orleans. The Army of the West was…

On March 6, 7, and 8, 1862, the Battle of Pea Ridge was fought in the Trans-Mississippi district just south of Wilson’s Creek in Northern Arkansas. The Union Army was led by Brig. Gen. Samuel R. Curtis, shown on the left, while Confederate forces…

The Third Battle of Petersburg, fought at the end of the Siege of Petersburg, Virginia, was essentially the culmination of ten months of trench warfare from June 9, 1864, to April 1, 1865, as General Ulysses S. Grant tried to take Richmond, the…