Civil War Info and Resources
In late August 1864, Major General Sterling Price and a 12,000 man Confederate Army left Princeton, Arkansas and headed north to Missouri. Price had an ambitious goal. He would invade Missouri, capture St. Louis,...
On September 19th, 1864, the 6th and 19th Corps of Major General Philip Sheridan’s Army of the Shenandoah crossed Opequon Creek and advanced toward the Shenandoah Valley town of Winchester, Virginia. Just east of...
In the 1850’s and 1860’s Edwin Booth and his younger brother John Wilkes Booth were considered to be two of the finest actors in America. The Civil War divided many families, including the Booths....
Phoebe Yates Pember was born in Charleston, South Carolina in 1823. She married Thomas Pember of Boston in 1856. Soon after that, he contracted tuberculosis and the couple moved back to the south in...
August 1864 in the Civil War Fighting continued on several fronts as the event filled summer of 1864 moved into August. The capture of the Confederate port at Mobile, Alabama had long been a...
Civil War soldiers on both sides would go to extraordinary lengths to save their regimental and national flags from capture by the enemy. One Union officer who risked his life to save his regiment’s...
Philanthropist David Rubenstein has donated $12.35 million for the repair and refurbishing of Arlington House, the home of General Robert E. Lee and his family from 1831-61. The house in Arlington, Virginia, is now...
The U.S. Postal Service has released the designs for the 2014 Civil War commemorative stamps, the fourth issues in this popular series marking the 150th anniversary of the Civil War. This year, the stamps...
