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In spite of its early ineptitude, the Russian Army might ultimately be able to replicate Lincoln’s winning strategy, ...

Modern American business and government were shaped directly and indirectly by a military model of administration During the war, writes Mark R. Wilson in "The Business of Civil War." ...

The Civil War was the deadliest conflict ever fought on American soil with approximately 620,000 fatalities, according to History.com. Recent analysis could even suggest these numbers are higher ...

I fear that there is a looming civil war on the horizon. It is not yet inevitable, but all true American patriots must be prepared for the coming battle. And the costs in blood will be heavy. This ...

In the living room of his house in Rappahannock, Virginia, filmmaker Ron Maxwell brings up the 2008 book from which that quote is drawn: This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War.

A world war on American soil: How the Civil War became a global struggle When the Union and the Confederacy charged into battle in 1861, the whole world was watching — and waiting By Don H. Doyle ...

The American Civil War was by far the deadliest conflict in U.S. history. From the start of the war in April 1861, with the Confederate attack on Fort Sumter, until General Robert E. Lee’s ...

As before the Civil War, our nation is bristling with fuel. My Quaker relatives didn't make it back from that conflagration. John B., age 49, died at the Battle of Nashville.

Indeed, 12 military men in the American Revolution were drawing pensions in the Civil War, and the photos of six appeared in E.B. Hillard’s book “The Last Men of the Revolution” in 1864.