The bulk of the fighting had taken place on 3 June, when Grant ordered that the fortifications of Confederate General Robert E…
The American Civil War ended more than a century and a half ago. But the last person to receive a pension tied…
Anderson, an American history professor who has taught about the war for 20 years – ‘a Southerner teaching in South Carolina’, he…
Filled with iron nails, the bottle was initially thought to have been placed there for storage. But Oliver Mueller-Heubach and Robert Hunter,…
The American Civil War might easily have ended in 1862. In the event, it dragged on for three more years, claiming the…
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Seema Syeda on battlefield scoops throughout the ages. William Howard Russell was one of the most prolific and revolutionary journalists of his…
Grant’s conduct of the Overland Campaign has sometimes been criticised as bludgeoning – lacking in tactical finesse, restricted to frontal attacks, callous…
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