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To what extent did the abolitionist movement bring about the end of slavery in the United States?

An illustrated look at the clashes between Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee during the Overland Campaign

Duped soldiers and Quaker guns are the focus of Julian Scott's painting "Sold."

Conyngham observed many chaplains at work...an important historical artifact.

Frank Leslie’s Illustrated History of the Civil War, published in 1895, contained a broad collection of sketches that had appeared during the conflict in Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper. One of these (shown above) captured an unlikely incident that occurred during the Battle of Shiloh.

...a very detailed account of this often-overlooked campaign.

Shortly after the outbreak of the Civil War, Mary Livermore, a 40-year-old native of Boston, volunteered to work for the United States Sanitary Commission in hopes of being of assistance to the Union war effort. She soon became an agent at the organization's Chicago branch (where she would eventually be promoted to co-director), in which capacity she organized a variety of aid socities and...

In the American Iliad, the Civil War’s chief victors are well known: Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant and his partner in command, Major General William T. Sherman. Largely eclipsed by these two commanders is Major General George H. Thomas. Yet Thomas not only led one of the North’s main field armies, he was almost alone among Union generals in never losing a battle. If there is a third...

George Armstrong Custer is a heroic yet tragic figure in the pantheon of America's military past...

Mertz and the Emerging Civil War Series have given us excellent history in guidebook format.