Bell Ringer: Civil War: Battle of the Wilderness Description Peter Carmichael and Gordon Rhea talked about the tactics of generals Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant during the Battle of the ...

A long-forgotten Civil War map has recently been rediscovered, shedding new light on the bloody aftermath of the battle of Antietam. Some 23,000 soldiers were killed, wounded or missing following ...

LOCUST GROVE – Three-year-old Mira Bracken giggled as she nibbled on a string bean from her perch in the shade of a Civil War-era pup tent pitched by Yankee soldiers Battle of the Wilderness ...

Civil War buffs and other history-minded readers who wish to deepen their knowledge of this campaign can start by reading Rhea’s "The Battle of the Wilderness" (1994), reissued in paperback ...

LOCUST GROVE — Three-year-old Mira Bracken giggled as she nibbled on a string bean from her perch in the shade of a Civil War-era pup tent pitched by Yankee soldiers from Maryland. Well, not ...

A newly discovered 150-year-old map of the Civil War’s Battle of Antietam shows thousands of graves of Union and Confederate soldiers killed near Sharpsburg, Md., in 1862.

As battlefield sites across the United States prepare for an expected onslaught of visitors connected to the Civil War's 150th anniversary, many of them are shrinking away, acre by acre.

Nonprofit groups are still following Lincoln’s orders, this time in a fight to preserve the land of the Wilderness Battlefield from what they consider the “threat” of development.

The final installment of our haunted Civil War site series takes us from dusk till dawn in the Alabama wilderness. With Minelab Equinox 800s in hand, we unearth war-era relics—and stumble upon ...