The state of Virginia’s position in the American Civil War echoed that of the state’s most prominent citizen during this turbulent era, one whose name would become synonymous both with the state and the war: General Robert E. Lee. Like his home state of Virginia, Lee had been an important part of the Union [...]

I intend to make Georgia howl. William Tecumseh Sherman
By the 1930s, most of those who’d lived through the American Civil War were long gone. The war was beginning to fade from the American memory, or at least become less prominent. However, one book and the movie that it spawned not only brought the [...]

As one of the first states to secede from the Union, Alabama’s stance during the Civil War was overwhelmingly pro-Confederate. However, the road to rebellion was not, in Alabama’s case, an especially easy one; while most of the state was happy to secede, there were Alabamans who did not go willingly.
Alabama’s Deep-South delta location [...]

Few states were as violently divided about the Civil War as Missouri. A state whose very formation was the progenitor of the “Missouri Compromise” that served to settle growing dissention between free and slave states, Missouri was from its very beginning a state at odds over the tensions that wold result in the Civil [...]