Two events in the 19th century turned the minds of Americans westwards towards eventual and inevi...

When the American Civil War broke out in 1861 both Confederate and Union experts decided that spe...

When the Southern states seceded to form their own government in 1861, one of their first moves w...

Perhaps the most influential arm of either army in the prosecution of the American Civil War, the...

When the War Between the States broke out in 1861, the US Army had only four line generals - and ...

The southerner of the mid-19th century had been bred to ride horses. In addition the period south...

'The War between the States' is the term used for the American Civil War (1861-1865)throughout mu...

The American Indian Wars, the most famous of which were fought on the great Western plains betwee...

When the War Between the States broke out in 1861, the US Army had only four line generals - and ...

The generals who led the brigades, divisions, corps and armies of the Confederacy were very large...

Because of the length of the coastline of the United States, from the beginning American ordnance...

At the time of the American Civil War (1861-1865), with two million men under arms, a US Army tha...