The Battle of Brandy Station – June, 1863 – was the largest cavalry battle ever fought in North America, involving 20,000 soldiers, 17,000 of them on horseback.

The most famous battle of the Civil War took place just outside of Gettysburg. Morning Edition stopped by the historic site to hear about the cautionary tale as the election cycle nears its end.

In 2015 Anheuser-Busch donated land along Interstate 64 in York County — part of the battlefield — to the American Battlefield Trust, a Fredericksburg-based organization established in 1987 to ...

The 8th Illinois Cavalry Regiment engaged in the first action of the Battle of Gettysburg, defending Union positions and ...