Back in the American Civil War, the American military founded its first aerial force, the Union Army Balloon Corps. Thank Union desperation and several entrepreneurs American aeronauts with a good ...

With its attention to lessons that the XV Corps learned in battle ... I hope Burke will continue his work exploring Civil War tactical cultures of other Corps on both the Union and Confederate sides ...

John Reynolds -- commander of the 1st Corps ... could have sent the Union Army reeling at the outset of what many consider the most significant battle of the Civil War. In Reynolds' place ...

The armies had no well-organized medical corps or field hospital plans ... superintendent of nurses for the Union during the American Civil War.Corbis via Getty Images The Union formalized ...

As bedraggled Union troops retreated to their camp along ... so the younger Johnston became a drummer boy -- a critical position during the Civil War that was responsible for much more than ...

One of the major accomplishments during the Civil War was the establishment ... Hospitals routinely took both Union and Confederate wounded. In the larger battles of the war the casualties were ...

What has me reaching over into this Civil War story is the reality of that Christmas ... year’s fighting were a home of sorts for the XV Corps and its First Division. Around them in that year ...

Each time you drive down Western Boulevard in Raleigh, you're passing by a hidden relic from the Civil War without ... 20th Army Corps. was camped out around modern day Dix Park, where Union ...