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…

Confederate Brigadier General Joseph E. Johnston was the son of Revolutionary War army colonel, Peter Johnston, and his mother was a niece…

God knows the misinformation, misunderstanding, and confusion labeled “history” is legion. It’s sickening, and sad, PARTICULARLY among “our own”. How can I…

Probably the most famous Asian Confederate soldiers were the two sons of famed P.T. Barnum Circus world-renowned Siamese Twins, Chang and Eng…

Philip Dale Roddey (April 2, 1826 – July 20, 1897)  A brigadier general in the army of the Confederate States of America…

John Austin Wharton (July 23, 1828 – April 6, 1865) A lawyer, plantation owner, and Confederate general during the American Civil War.…

Lafayette McLaws ( January 15, 1821 – July 24, 1897) United States Army officer and a Confederate general in the War for…

H. T. KEIRSEY Pictured is Private Hiram Taylor Kersey of Cannon County, Tennessee who was only thirteen years old in May of…

Few ties are as strong as the military bands of brotherhood. The Gist of the Matter Two soldiers, close friends for years,…

Horace Porter, Brevet Brigadier General, U.S.A. A little before noon on the 7th of April, 1865, General Grant, with his staff, rode…

Little Rock, Ark., 19th Dec., ’49. My dear, dear wife: I can hardly express to you the happiness I feel at being…

John Lincoln “Johnny” Clem (1851-1937) Born in Newark, Ohio, 13 Aug. 1851, Clem ran away from home in May 1861 to join…

When Grant broke his lines around Petersburg on April 2nd and Lee put his army into retreat, his plan was to keep…

July 13, 1864, At the Battle of the Crater, the Union’s ingenious attempt to break the Confederate lines at Petersburg, Virginia, by…

On July 6, 1865 the convicted assassins of President Abraham Lincoln, Payne, David Herold, George Atzerodt and Mary Surratt, languish in their…