The Battle of Cold Harbor was the Confederacy’s last major Civil War victory. Does it offer any insight into the mysterious ...

Despite having much of its most valuable territory retaken by the summer of 1864, the Confederacy continued to resist. If it ...

Petersburg National Battlefield was the site of the final chapters of the Civil War. The Battle of Petersburg lasted more than nine and a half month siege with 70,000 casualties! This hard-fought ...

After that battle, Sergeant Major ... efforts to breach the lines at Petersburg and Richmond in the summer of 1864,” says Pulitzer-Prize-winning Civil War historian James McPherson.

"Incidents of the war: A harvest of death." The three days of conflict at Gettysburg resulted in 51,000 casualties, making it the bloodiest battle of the Civil War. Courtesy: Library of Congress ...

During the Civil War, Hill was among the highest-regarded ... responsive corps. At the Third Battle of Petersburg, just seven days before Lee's surrender, Hill proclaimed that he had no desire ...