Two great, untested armies were readying for the first—and what many believed would be the last—major conflict between North and South. On the eve of July 2

On July 21, 1861, near a Virginia railroad junction twenty-five miles from Washington, DC, the Union and Confederate armies clashed in the first major battle of

This series offers to students of the Civil War, either those continuing or those just beginning their exciting journey into the past, concise overviews of impo

This crucial campaign receives its most complete and comprehensive treatment in Edward Longacre’s The Early Morning of War. A magisterial work by a veteran hi

A noted historian illuminates all aspects of the event that launched the Civil War--the Battle of Manassas, or Bull Run. Through the diaries and letters of men