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 ...

The Union soldiers were driving 900 head of cattle towards Louisville when they were surprised by a Confederate attack where ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ten months into the Civil War, the Union was short on a crucial supply, the absence of which threatened to sap the fighting strength of the Northern army: coffee. This critical source of energy ...

Dated Aug. 19, 1861, the short letter is addressed to Charles Ellet Jr., an American civil engineer and Union ... war. “You propose raising for the service of the U.S., a Civil Engineer Corps ...