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Confederate General J. E. B. Stuart (1833-1864) had his cavalry cut the telegraph lines used by the Union army during one of his raids at the end of 1862. Illustration from Makers of the world's...

Union assault on the Confederate breastworks at the Battle of Cold Harbor on 3 June 1864, sketch by Alfred R. Waud in Harper's Weekly: Journal of Civilization, June 25 1864.

Union soldiers of the XVIII Corps assault Confederate trenches on 15 June 1864 during the early days of the Siege of Petersburg in the American Civil War, wood engraving by Edwin Forbes in Frank Leslie's...

The Capture of Fort Henry, Tennessee, engraving by an unknown artist based on an original sketch by Alexander Simplot, 1862. The engraving here depicts the Union gunboats that attacked Fort Henry on 06 February...

Pierre Gustave Toutant-Beauregard (P. G. T. Beauregard, 1818 to 1893) was an engineer and Confederate general during the American Civil War. He is famous as the first general commissioned to...

President Joe Biden, joined by Vice President Kamala Harris, lawmakers, and guests, signs the Juneteenth National Independence Day Act Bill on Thursday, June 17, 2021, in the East Room...

Andrew Johnson (1808-1875) was the 17th President of the United States, who was suddenly thrust into the office in 1865 after the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. A gruff Southern Democrat, Johnson...

The Battle of Fort Sumter (12-13 April 1861), also known as the Attack on Fort Sumter and the Fall of Fort Sumter, was the opening engagement of the American Civil War. It began when...

Juneteenth is an annual event celebrating the end of chattel slavery in the United States in commemorating the issuance of General Order No. 3 (which included the line "all slaves are free") in Galveston, Texas on 19 June...

The Battle of the Wilderness (5-6 May 1864) was the opening engagement of the Overland Campaign, a major Union offensive conducted during the final year of the American Civil...