The words seem to jump from the faded paper: “100 Colored Men Wanted for Substitutes!” “Come in and Prevent the ‘Draft’!” “Enlist Now and Get Your $100 Bounty! Don’t Wait to Be Drafted and Lose Your Bounty!” “The Draft is Inevitable! It Can’t Be Shirked!” These are examples of phrases from Civil War recruitment [...]

If the mind of the Civil War was firmly entrenched in Virginia, with the seemingly indefatigable General Lee and his Army of Northern Virginia, then the heart of the Civil War was in Tennessee. Following only just behind Virginia in the number of battles fought, Tennessee saw some of the bloodiest scenes of the war, [...]

The American Civil War ended not with a bang, or a whimper, but with something in between. It was not a decisive battle, a Waterloo, as such, that drew the war to a close, but rather the culmination of defeats that brought the weakened Confederacy to its knees, making it impossible to continue either [...]

The name “Kentucky” comes from the Cherokee - it means “dark and bloody ground.” At no time in the state’s history was this name more apt than during the Civil War. A hotly contested border state, Kentucky’s ground was dark and bloody indeed from military battles and skirmishes that took place throughout the [...]

The Civil War was the defining moment in the lives of most Americans who lived during that era. The influence of that period in their lives influenced the remaining years of their lives.
It is no wonder then, that many of those who lived through the war collected their stories, reminisces, and other anecdotes into [...]

Infantry regiments were the first line of defense on the Civil War battlefield for most of the war. Although modern military weapons and tactics - such as repeating rifles and trench warfare - that lessened the reliance on infantry regiments grew in importance toward the end of the war, infantry men, who fought on [...]