Confederate States of America: Did you mean...?

Hear about what American was like before Whitey showed up in all of its diverse complexity. But I'll also talk about the Age of Exploration, Whitey's arrival in America, and the great Columbian Exchange.

Dead Confederate soldier, photograph by Timothy H. O'Sullivan, 1864. Depicted here is a fallen soldier from the Second Corps of the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia, killed on 19 May 1864 during the Battle of Spotsylvania...

Virginia, Cold Harbor. Extreme line of Confederate Works, photographic print by John Reekie, April 1865. Depicted here are the makeshift Confederate breastworks put up at the left end of their line at the...

Sherman's March to the Sea (15 November to 21 December 1864) was a significant military campaign in the American Civil War (1861-1865). Hoping to cripple the Confederacy's ability to make war, as...

The Battle of Spotsylvania Court House (8-21 May 1864) was a pivotal engagement in the Overland Campaign, a major Union offensive during the final year of the American Civil War (1861-1865...

Winfield Scott (1786-1866) was an American military leader famous for his brilliant tactics in battle, for his insistence on the value of a highly trained, disciplined army, and for being the general...

The Battle of Yellow Tavern (11 May 1864) was a pivotal engagement of the American Civil War (1861-1865), not so much for any grand strategic reason than for the loss of Major General J. E. B. Stuart...

Confederate General Braxton Bragg, photograph by an unknown photographer, c. 1861-65, restoration by Adam Cuerden. Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

Confederate soldiers advance through the woods toward the Union lines at the Battle of Chickamauga (19-20 Sept 1863), drawing on paper by Alfred R. Waud, 1863. Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

Confederate General Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard, the hero of Petersburg, who held off overwhelming Union troops, buying time for Robert E. Lee. Retouched version of a photograph by Mathew Brady, c. 1860...