Of all the different battles of the Civil War, two stand out in my mind as the epitome of “man’s inhumanity to Man.” One is Picket’s charge in Gettysburg, where Lee ordered a charge to take place in ...

June of 1863 began with a soaking rain in Western Massachusetts easing the late spring drought that had the Connecticut River near the low water mark which determined whether the steamboats could ply ...

"Vicksburg 1863" (Alfred A. Knopf, 496 pages, $30), by Winston Groom: Many books have examined the Union siege of Vicksburg, Miss., over the years, but that's no reason Winston Groom should not lend ...

• Part 25 -- April 1863: Civil War reaches its halfway point as jobs and culture flourish locally and Lincoln looks to enlist God on Union side • Part 26 -- Civil War: May 1863 marks deaths of ...

July 4 — A date to celebrate our Independence, but that date has more historical importance. Thomas Jefferson and John Adams both died on July 4, 1826, hours apart. Ironically, two great battles of ...

As the 150th anniversary of Vicksburg's surrender to Union forces in the Civil War arrives Thursday, people remember the thousands of lives lost in the battle.A total of 19,233 candlers filled the ...

This July 4 marks the 150th anniversary of one of the greatest military victories of the Civil War, the siege and capture of Vicksburg, Miss., by Gen. Ulysses S. Grant and his army containing ...

July 1863 could easily be called the month that won the Civil War. Three vital battles were fought or ended that month and the results were enormous for the country. At Vicksburg, Mississippi, on July ...

Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2020. Pp. xx, 48. Illus., maps, appends, notes, index. $34.95. ISBN: 0700629068 Grant Attempts to Storm Vicksburg Timothy B. Smith’s latest book describes the ...

July 4, 1863, was one of the moral and military turning points of the Civil War. On that day, the Army of Northern Virginia retreated from the death-grapple at Gettysburg, and on that day the ...

Vicksburg has an interesting history when it comes to celebrating Independence Day.It was not until the end of World War II in 1945 that the River City celebrated the holiday with the rest of the ...

This year’s July 4th celebrations will be different than years past as our country continues to battle through the COVID-19 pandemic. There are some lessons we can learn if we look back to July 4, ...