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General Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson's amputated arm got its own grave at Ellwood Cemetery in Orange County, Virginia.

Thousands remained trapped under rubble after the earthquake and millions spent the night outside in freezing winter conditions while many areas have not received assistance and the government is being criticised for not using the military.

Barrett Hill Farm in Mason hosted a Rapidan Civil War reenactment Oct. 1 and 2 with support from the 15th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Regiment, the Liberty Greys and the New England Brigade. The reenactment commemorated when the Second Corps of...

Hemingway forged his innovative style when he was young. The stark, intense and dramatic account of an execution in i...

In the Army they say about Sansom: "That guy never learned to crawl when he was a baby— he just learned to run"

This map shows the movements of Union (blue) and Confederate (red) troops in the aftermath of the Battle of Gettysburg, fought from July 1 to 3, 1863. During the night of July 3, Confederate general Robert E. Lee managed to slip his Army of Northern Virginia across the Potomac River into Virginia and evade pursuing Union troops. This map shows the movements of Confederate (red) and Union (blue) troops on July 1, 1863, the first day of the Battle of Gettysburg. By the end of the day, Union force...

Allan was born on November 12, 1837, at Winchester Gardens, near Winchester, one of two children, both sons, of Thomas Allan and Jane Dowdell George Allan. After being educated in a local private school, he taught in Jefferson County and in Winchester to earn enough money to enroll in the University of Virginia in 1857. Allan excelled at debate and graduated with honors in 1860 with an MA in applied arithmetic. He moved to Loudoun County where he was assistant to the principal of Bloomfield Aca...

SUMMARY Richard S. Ewell was a Confederate lieutenant general during the American Civil War (1861–1865) who apprenticed under Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson during the Shenandoah Valley Campaign of 1862, and later took charge of the Army of Northern Virginia‘s Second Corps after Jackson’s death. Nicknamed “Old Bald Head” and said to be “blisteringly profane,” Ewell courted controversy with his decision not to attack Cemetery Hill on the first day of the Battle of Gettysburg (18...

The Appomattox Campaign began on Wednesday, March 29, 1865. After a final meeting at City Point, Virginia, to discuss strategy with United States president Abraham Lincoln, Union general William T. Sherman, and Admiral David Porter, Ulysses S. Grant set in motion the Army of the Potomac, commanded by George G. Meade, and the Army of the James, commanded by Edward O. C. Ord, with the intention of turning the right, or southern, flank of Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia, entrenched at ...

SUMMARY Nathaniel Prentiss Banks was a Massachusetts state legislator (1849–1853), a ten-term United States Congressman (1853–1857, 1865–1873, 1875–1879, 1889–1891), Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives (1856–1857), governor of Massachusetts (1858–1861), and a Union general during the American Civil War (1861–1865). One of the most prominent political generals of the conflict, Banks lacked military talent and experience but rose to high command on the strength of his pub...