Jeffords, however, would not recover, becoming the highest-ranking officer to die of a bayonet wound in the Civil War. This week marks the 154th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg ...

Gettysburg, the site of the largest and bloodiest battle of the American Civil War, was my favorite from the start. Every visit began at the interpretive center, which I recall being a rather ...

In the Union service these may be summarized as: Normally, accounts of Civil War battles rely for the numbers ... are almost never available for the specific date of a battle. In the case of the ...

If I had to pick the one site of the Civil War for kids to see, it would have to be Gettysburg, the greatest land battle ever fought in America.” Envision the battlefield, ten miles from the ...

After watching excerpts from the episodes Chandler Tintype and Civil War Letters, each of which looks at how blacks were involved on both sides in the fighting of the Civil War, students engage in ...

Considered the turning point of the Civil War, the Battle of Gettysburg was also the bloodiest, amassing an estimated 51,000 casualties. The three-day conflict took place in July 1863 at what is ...

The Gettysburg National Military Park is undertaking a conservation cleaning of its historic "Battle of Gettysburg" cyclorama painting. The cleaning, which happens roughly every decade ...

"Incidents of the war: A harvest of death." The three days of conflict at Gettysburg resulted in 51,000 casualties, making it the bloodiest battle of the Civil War. Courtesy: Library of Congress ...