One of the most recognizable names of the American Civil War, the Battle of Bull Run was one of the first major battles of the Civil War. However, there were actually two battles of Bull Run; the first took place in 1861, the second in 1862.
The first Battle of Bull Run was fought on [...]

The battle of Gettysburg began not on July 1, 1863, but in May of 1863. Gettysburg was the culmination of General Robert E. Lee’s campaign to take Pennsylvania, a crushing blow to the Union, but it was a campaign that not only failed, but also nearly destroyed Lee and his Army of Northern Virginia.
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Battlefield at Gettysburg, PA; 1907
The American Civil War raged for five long years, turning cities and countrysides, North, South, and even the frontier West into battlefields.
It is estimated that somewhere around 10,000 battles were fought during the Civil War, battles that engaged anywhere from a handful of men to hundreds of thousands. Documentation [...]