One gun and a ram
The CSS Manassas, a one-gun Confederate ironclad ram, rammed the USS Richmond at the Head of Passes at the mouth of the Mississippi River on October 12,...
Ordered by the court
The Freedmen’s Bureau was responsible for leasing abandoned or confiscated lands. James Hicks began the process of reclaiming his seized land by swearing to...
Patients protest
Sickness, not combat, killed most Civil War soldiers. During the early months of the war, especially, disease ran rampant through both the U.S. and Confederate...
Phillip Henry Sheridan
”Little Phil” Sheridan began the war as a Second Lieutenant and quickly rose to become the fourth ranking member of the Union Army in three and a half years.
Plan of Fort Wagner
This detailed drawing of Fort Wagner, executed in 1863 by Lt. N. M. Edwards, documents the size and configuration of the fort. Cross sections provide insight into the...
Polk’s death
A 3-inch shell hit and instantly killed Confederate Lieutenant General Leonidas Polk as he scouted enemy positions from atop this mountain near Marietta, Georgia, on...
Posing with history
Union General Edward Otho Cresap Ord posed with his wife and only daughter on the south portico of the Confederate White House in Richmond, Virginia, towards the end...