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The first major success for the Union during the Civil War was in the Western Theater of Tennessee when Fort Henry fell on February 6, 1862. After securing the fort, Brig. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant marched his troops to Fort Donelson. It had been a balmy…

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…