Documents the everyday life of the common soldier during the Civil War, including information on what life was like for the soldiers in basic training, combat,

General John A. Wickham, commander of the famous 101st Airborne Division in the 1970s and subsequently Army Chief of Staff, once visited Antietam battlefield. G

“War means fighting, and fighting means killing,” Confederate cavalry commander Nathan Bedford Forrest famously declared. The Civil War was fundamentally a

In Fighting for Citizenship, Brian Taylor complicates existing interpretations of why black men fought in the Civil War. Civil War–era African Americans recog

This middle school series brings Civil War history to life through true stories, descriptions of major events and primary source illustrations that will enhance