Gettysburg was the site of the most famous ... take a fresh look at the dozen or so establishments named after Confederate generals. Senior officials, a spokesman said on Monday, were "open ...

Meanwhile, a messanger came up. He explained that he was from Maj. Gen. Abner Doubleday, who had heard that a Confederate general - possibly Longstreet himself - had been captured. The messanger ...

Leader of the fabled Texas Brigade, John Bell Hood was highly regarded among the ranks of Confederate generals. Despite sustaining wounds at Gettysburg and losing a leg at Chickamauga, Hood ...

Gettysburg National Military Park was established in 1895 to commemorate an 1863 battle that turned the tides of the Civil War. Situated in rural southern ... has long been told through the lens of ...

The war officially continued for nearly two years, but Gettysburg is widely considered the turning point in the Union’s ...

By Brandon Fey, News Editor Few symbols of Gettysburg are as iconic as that of President Lincoln delivering his famous ...

Such was the case at the Battle of Gettysburg where the commanding generals had two of the more famous horses of the war. Perhaps the most famous horse in American history is Confederate General ...

For example, he breaks down the number of Union army generals who were Democrats ... 15 years of researching and teaching Civil War history at Gettysburg College. He says he learned that ...

With concise facts and anecdotes of war generals during battle struggles, this book debunks Civil War myths often thought to be true. Books for Kids: Gettysburg by MacKinlay Kantor (1987): For ...

General Ewell's Second Corps slams into the Union forces' northern flank, sending them reeling back through the town of Gettysburg ... and collect stragglers. Confederate troops have scored ...