Two months after the war ended, Confederate soldiers destroyed a fleet of Yankee ships, which were harvesting bowhead whales ...

During the Civil War, the men of the South probed with their bayonets and met steel. The deck was stacked in that conflict as far as each soldier’s confidence in the justice of their cause was ...

If there is one general that could be considered as having single-handedly lost the Civil War for the Confederates, it’s John ...

Now we ain’t afraid, if they meet us, to run the bayonet through them.” As this soldier’s comments suggested, the Civil War offered new opportunities for both African American males and ...