Green Bluff’s Siemers Farm, known for strawberry and fall festivals, transformed into a Civil War battlefield this Memorial ...

the Confederacy enlisted more than 11,500 sharpshooters, compared to fewer than 9,000 in the Union ranks. Like modern-day snipers, Civil War sharpshooters typically concealed themselves in their ...

Shortages often meant that the Confederate sharpshooters wore an eclectic mix of issue, civilian and captured clothes often resulting in soldiers who were, as one Union soldier put it ...

And many were killed in ignoble fashion, kicked by mules, poisoned by bad whiskey — or shot while they were eating, sleeping or attending to personal hygiene, by Union sharpshooters dubbed “sn ...

Led by champion New York rifleman Hiram Berdan, Union sharpshooters clad in forest green picked off unwary rebels in a devilishly cruel and random sport, teaching the prudent to keep their heads down.

Led by champion New York rifleman Hiram Berdan, Union sharpshooters clad in forest green picked off unwary rebels in a devilishly cruel and random sport, teaching the prudent to keep their heads down.

This book deals primarily with Southern soldiers, but it also includes information about how the Union army employed sharpshooters for similar duty. Although the Confederate Congress had ...

After a Union shell pierced her house on Spring Hill ... which was at that time filled with sharpshooters. I had scarcely gotten to the battery before I saw some of my horses fall and some of ...