The Civil War was the culmination of a series of confrontations concerning the institution of slavery. The following is a timeline of…

      ‘Belle of the Battlefield’ Lucinda Dogan and six of her children lived in a two-room home in Manassas, where,…

On August 20, 1864, a chosen group of 600 Confederate officers left Fort Delaware as prisoners of war, bound for the Union…

In the summer of 1863, Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee launched his second invasion of the Northern states. Lee sought to capitalize…

(October 15, 1836 – March 29, 1910) was a Confederate general during the American Civil War, and later an officer in the…

  A low-level conflict had already been raging in the Missouri-Kansas borderlands in the years preceding the outbreak of the Civil War.…