Throughout much of the Civil War, a key Union objective ... General Burnside's campaign at Fredericksburg did not go as planned, in part because the battle introduced obstacles his men had never ...

Women presenting as men — whether to escape the stifling construct of feminine life or to stay close to husbands or brothers ...

Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park manages four major Civil War battlefields and five historic structures including the "Stonewall" Jackson Death Site spread across multiple ...

At the time of the Civil War, camera shutters were too ... At the December 1862 Battle of Fredericksburg, Arthur Lumley, a Dublin-born Irishman working for theNew-York Illustrated News, sketched ...

Military records reveal that women fought—and died—in all the major battles of the Civil War, participating in clashes in Antietam, Fredericksburg, Gettysburg, Shiloh, and Vicksburg ...

a Fredericksburg-based organization established in 1987 to preserve and protect Revolutionary, Civil War and War of 1812 battlefields. Its mission is to preserve “America’s hallowed ...