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The Most Devastating Battles of the Civil War

The American Civil War was defined not only by its political and moral issues, but by a series of brutal, high-casualty battles. These conflicts altered the nation’s history and landscape. Fought on ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Ken Burns Says His New Documentary Forced Him to Revisit Everything He Thought He Knew About the American Revolution

Ahead of the PBS production’s premiere, the legendary filmmaker and co-director Sarah Botstein share insights on their research process and the surprising, long-overlooked stories featured in the ...
Richmond Register

The Battle of Richmond was a benchmark in the Confederate intrusion into our Commonwealth

During 1862 Confederate cavalry commander, John Hunt Morgan, launched his first raid into Kentucky. According to Lowell H. Harrison’s The Civil War in Kentucky (1975) his column rode west from ...
The Herald-Dispatch

New Civil War marker in Putnam County details the Battle of Hurricane Bridge

HURRICANE, W.Va. — A new Civil War Trails marker was unveiled Friday in Hurricane at the site of an 1863 battle. Installed at ShotFire Fitness, located at 1165 Midland Trail across the road from ...