SO BLUNDERING was the attempt of [General Ambrose E.] Burnside on [Fredericksburg] December 13, 1862, and so easily was he beaten, notwithstanding…

GENERAL LEE had nothing of nepotism about him, but meted out the evenest justice to all, except that he did not promote…

[ONE NIGHT in the early summer of 1863, just after the failure of the naval attack on Fort Sumter], as we walked…

WHILE FEAR OF AN ATTACK…. held the city of Washington in its grasp, the Negroes cowered under the great war comet blazing…

John Allan Wyeth, born on May 26, 1845, in Guntersville, Alabama. Served with the 4th Alabama Cavalry was an American Confederate veteran…

The slave trade begins in America, with warring African tribes capturing other tribal people and selling them to slave traders in the…