There’s ongoing debate among historians and military history buffs about which general was better, Grant or Lee? Or maybe the question should be Sherman or Jackson? The name you never hear in these debates is George H. Thomas, who is arguably bette…
On Dec. 15, 1864, the Confederate Army of Tennessee was nearly destroyed by the Union forces of General George Thomas. After a long summer of defeats at the hands of…
The beginning of the end for the Confederate States of America didn’t come at the capture of Richmond or even the fields of Gettysburg. It came from the west, where…
On Nov. 17, 1863, Confederate General James Longstreet laid siege to the city of Knoxville, Tennessee. In the fall of 1863, Union Major General Ambrose Burnside occupied Knoxville where a…
On Nov. 12, 1864, Union General William T. Sherman ordered the destruction of Atlanta, Georgia. Saying that General William T. Sherman was unforgiving to his enemies is the understatement of…
On Nov. 15, 1864, Union General William T. Sherman began his infamous march to the sea. The Civil War was one of the early “Total Wars” in world history, where…
When John Wilkes Booth shot President Abraham Lincoln on April 14, 1865, he was acting in support of the South, of slavery, and his fervent belief that Lincoln was out…
War is never clean, but measures can be taken to minimize the suffering of those who fight the wars and those most affected by them. Casualty counts in wars of…
While the Battle of South Mountain itself won’t be written about in history textbooks, the overall effort to expel Confederate forces from Maryland is, and the Union victory there was…
While the United States was fighting for its existence, the world kept turning and other countries continued acting in their own self-interest. Just because the United States military was preoccupied…