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 [...]

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 [...]

What’s the difference between an admiral and a general? What’s the difference between an enlisted and a commissioned officer? If you’ve ever found yourself confused when military rank when reading about the Civil War, then you are not alone - the intricacies of military rank, especially as they apply to as many different [...]

When it became obvious that Civil War was imminent in the United States in 1861, regiments of soldiers began organizing both in the Union and in the individual states as they seceded from the Union and joined the Confederacy.
Henry Steele Commager has written that:
The Union and Confederate armies were haphazardly raised, badly organized, poorly trained, [...]