See more › To place the Battle of Second Bull Run (also called the Battle of Second Manassas) in context, I reached out to Gary Gallagher, emeritus director of the University of Virginia’s John L. Nau ...

An enormous cache of recently discovered Civil War letters and other 19th century documents has been donated to Virginia Tech ... Still other letters recount battlefield tragedies.

As most of the 120,000-man Army of the Potomac navigated the Rappahannock River and took the colonial town of Fredericksburg, Virginia ... battle alone. It was the most lopsided battle in the war ...

Considered the turning point of the Civil War, the Battle of Gettysburg was also the ... Gettysburg National Military Park, visit the Virginia Monument and take in panoramic views at Spangler ...

So successful was the Lost Cause propaganda campaign that most Americans forgot the true meaning of the Civil War.

Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park manages four major Civil War ... The battle was between the Army of ...