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The first major battle of the Civil War was fought on July 21, 1861, at the Battle of Bull Run, or First Manassas as the South preferred to call it. Northern picnickers expecting to see the Southern army get a quick thrashing came from nearby…

The city of Winchester, Virginia, changed hands 72 times during the Civil War, as well as nine times in one day. On October 19, 1864, General William Tecumseh Sherman (the central figure in this painting) had just returned from official meetings in…

Fought from April 30 through May 6, 1863, in Spotsylvania County, Virginia, the Battle of Chancellorsville is considered General Robert E. Lee’s greatest victory. The battle gets it name from the small village two miles from the battlefield, as well…

After retreating from Chickamauga, the Union Army of the Cumberland settled into Chattanooga while the Confederates ringed the hills around them so they could not get food. One army was in about as bad a shape as the other. In order to survive,…

In the Western Theater of the war, Union Maj. Gen. William Rosecrans had outflanked and outmaneuvered General Braxton Bragg’s Confederate Army of Tennessee and taken the city of Chattanooga without firing a single shot. As the forces each moved south…

With the most significant fighting on June 3, the Battle of Cold Harbor, was fought southeast of Richmond from May 31 to June 12, 1864, during General Ulysses S. Grant’s Overland Campaign. This engagement contained the bloodiest 15 minutes of the…