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These amazing portraits by the 'father of photojournalism' show the men who won the Civil War in all their glory. The pictures, taken by Mathew Brady, document the leading generals on the Union ...
Here are some other ways to understand the issues about the Civil War. The Killer Angels ... chapters viewpoints of Confederate and Northern Generals about the Gettysburg battle.
TROY — A gathering Saturday morning paid tribute to a Union general disowned by his Virginia family during the Civil War and marked the progress to repair surroundings at his Oakwood Cemetery ...
This year begins the Civil War Sesquicentennial ... They go well beyond the heavily recycled photographs of Union generals to include new images of those generals plus some of the sole surviving ...
We've all seen photographs of the Civil War: black-and-white images of bearded Union generals or mustachioed Confederate colonels posing to one side of the camera, dead bodies stacked on the ...
Album at the Smithsonian Museum of African American History shows photos of black ... saddening similarity. In general, the men who had been free before the Civil War fared better than once ...
The Civil War ... entire sweep of the war: the complex causes and lasting effects of America's greatest and most moving calamity, the battles and the homefront, the generals and the private ...
William Piston and John Rutherford discuss General Marmaduke and his Civil War raids Many of us enjoy learning about Civil War history, especially what occurred in the area that we grew up in or live.
Photographer Drew Gardener did a project for Smithsonian magazine, that features recreations of portraits of African Americans who served in the Civil War, using their direct descendants as models.
BLACKSBURG, Va. (WDBJ) - What’s now known as the Glencoe Museum in Radford used to be the home of Civil War Confederate General Gabriel Wharton. The home was passed down to his family.