An uneducated farm-boy who became the Civil War’s most brilliant ... Forrest rose to command Confederate cavalry in three states as major general. But his tactical genius was clouded by his ...

On both sides, the Civil War ... Confederate forces. National Museum of American History Pin made of William T. Sherman uniform buttons National Museum of American History Campaign hat worn by William ...

In the late summer of 1865, a few months after Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered to Union forces at Appomattox ...

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

Taking Confederate names off the sign boards at military bases is not a “woke” rewrite of history, as some in the Republican Party suggest. The biggest rewrite of post-Civil War history took ...

In this blog post, Jabour details how southern women frequently served as secret agents in the Civil War, using every ... who provided Confederate General T. J. (“Stonewall”) Jackson with ...

A naming commission set-up by Congress to study renaming bases noted Bragg is “considered one of the worst generals of the Civil War,” and was “widely disliked in the pre-Civil War U.S. Army and ...

the only Civil War general from North Carolina. The base was renamed Fort Liberty in 2023. Trump has been adamant in his opposition to renaming bases honoring Confederate leaders. “I have been ...