On April 9, 1865, General Robert E. Lee surrendered his army to Ulysses S. Grant at Virginia's Appomattox Court House, ...

The American Civil War was defined not only by its political and moral issues, but by a series of brutal, high-casualty battles. These conflicts altered the nation’s history and landscape. Fought on ...

The Civil War was one of the deadliest conflicts in United States history, with over 10,000 battles between 1861 and 1865. From Vermont to as far away as Arizona, Union and Confederate soldiers would ...

The first shot of the bloodiest battle of the Civil War was fired by a man from DuPage County. Lt. Marcellus E. Jones of the 8th Illinois Calvary was on patrol outside Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, ...

PLEASANT HILL, La. — In the spring of 1864, northwest Louisiana became the center of one of the Civil War’s most ambitious and consequential Union offensives. Known as the Red River Campaign, the ...

The Louisiana state historic marker near the Pinhook Bridge says two battles took place there in 1863: "Bayou Vermilion," it says. "Battle of Pinhook Bridge April 17, 1863. Battle of Bayou Vermilion ...

An almost $1 million Battlefield Land Acquisition grant from the National Park Service will be combined with local funds and help fund the purchase of more than 30 acres on the banks of the Tennessee ...