Michael Lally, an immigrant to Massachusetts from Ireland, fought for the Union in more than a dozen major battles of the Civil War, including the first and second Bull Run (Manassas), the Siege of ...

The American Civil War (1861-1865) is regarded as the most violent war in U.S. history, with fighting occurring between the Union and the Confederacy for the fate of the nation. With hundreds of ...

In American Civil War – The Blue and the Gray, players must exhibit both military and political skill in the toughest operations of those five years of wild campaigning in a divided United States.

In this brilliant new look at the destruction of slavery during the American Civil War, Oakes reveals how the U.S. abolitionist movement relied not only on high-minded moral suasion but also on the ...

The Lower South secedes -- The Confederate States of America -- Secession runs its course -- A new day dawns -- Enemies, spies, and traitors -- and Reconstruction -- Consolidating the government -- ...

Tony Horowitz's excellent book Confederates in the Attic spends a few chapters focusing on those committed Civil War buffs who take the concept of historical re-enactment to an entirely new level. For ...