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The day after the South’s devastating loss at Gettysburg, the Confederacy suffered another major setback when the key river city of Vicksburg, Mississippi, surrendered to General Ulysses Grant on July 4, 1863, after a 47-day siege. I had not visited…

The Battle of Stones River, or the Second Battle of Murfreesboro as it was called in the South, was fought on December 31, 1862, through January 2, 1863, in Murfreesboro, Tennessee. This geographic portion of the war was known as the Western Theater.…

As General Ulysses S. Grant (shown on the left) progressed in his goal of taking the capital city of the Confederacy, he started north of Richmond and then proceeded east and south in order to encircle the city. Each time he attempted an attack on…

Fought on April 6 and 7, 1862, in Hardin County, Tennessee, Shiloh was the first of the particularly bloody battles of the Civil War. During the two-day battle, 23,000 Americans were killed, wounded, captured, or missing. Many were burned when the…

The Battle of Seven Pines, or the Battle of Fair Oaks as it was called by the North, was fought on May 31, and June 1, 1862. General George B. McClellan had brought his Army of the Potomac up the Virginia Peninsula engaging in battles at Yorktown and…

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…