Bill Anders has always been fascinated with railroads. The American Civil War, not so much. At least, not initially. A good friend of Anders got him interested in the Civil War through conferences ...

Austin tiptoed through the Civil War. The major battlefields lay hundreds of miles away. Much of the Texas capital's business was put on hold. Union and Confederate sympathizers skirmished in the Hill ...

Map list -- Introduction -- Opening the trade routes -- First railroads, 1700-1830 -- Origins of the streetcar -- Rail track developments -- Harnessing the power of steam, 1800-34 -- Coming of the ...

MARIETTA — The Civil War Round Table of the Mid-Ohio Valley will be taking a trip to Muskingum County, Ohio, for the annual Underground Railroad Symposium. The symposium is being held by Muskingum ...

It is a historic coincidence that Dahlgren's 12-inch/35-caliber M1918 railroad gun was transferred to Ft. Lee's U.S. Army Ordnance Museum, located near a Civil War battlefield that saw one of the ...

Historian and author Robert M. “Bert” Dunkerly of Richmond, Va., will present an online program on “Civil War Railroads” 6:30 p.m. Monday, Aug. 19, for the Inland Empire Civil War Round Table. The ...

"Beginning with Frederick Douglass's escape from slavery in 1838 on the railroad, and ending with the driving of the golden spike to link the transcontinental railroad in 1869, this book charts a ...

Trevilians was the largest cavalry battle of the Civil War. Arguments to the contrary have been advanced pointing to Brandy Station in Culpeper County, but Trevilians in Louisa County was ...