In this new episode of Kings and Generals’ Civil War series, we cover the Battle of Fredericksburg—one of the bloodiest and ...

Karen Stone of Fredericksburg has written a book about the Black Diamond disaster, a forgotten tragedy on the Potomac River ...

Throughout much of the Civil War, a key Union objective was to penetrate ... Burnside's plan was to cross the river quickly at Fredericksburg, Virginia, surprising General Robert E.

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In 1863, weeks after the Battle of Fredericksburg ... burn to the ground causing him to proclaim bankruptcy. After the Civil War he turned to politics, becoming governor of Rhode Island in ...

and Fredericksburg, Virginia. There was scarcely a family in the South that did not lose a son or brother or father. As with any civil strife, the war was marked by excruciating ironies.

The wounded soldiers above were photographed at a hospital in Fredericksburg ... d volunteered to fight a half-century before. The Civil War killed and injured over a million Americans, roughly ...

At the time of the Civil War, camera shutters were too slow to ... Frank Vizetelly was nearly killed at Fredericksburg, Virginia, in December 1862, when a “South Carolinian had a portion of ...

“Equal rights & Justice to all white men in the United States forever,” urges John McMahon of Hambrook, Pennsylvania, on Aug. 5, 1864. “White men is in class number one & black men in class number two ...

Lee, the reluctant, tragic leader of the Confederate Army, who died in his beloved Virginia at age 63 in 1870, five years after the end of the Civil War. In a new biography, Robert E. Lee ...