AMERICAN CIVIL WAR

Travis Shaw, the Education Director of the Virginia Piedmont Heritage Area, recounted the fateful luck of Luther Slater during the Civil War.

Just like historian Dana Shoaf found Nevin’s diary, Confederate Col. Elijah V. White stumbled upon the lost Union soldier by chance.

Loudoun Heritage Farm Museum Director Anne Marie Chirieleison tells us the brief history of Harrison Hall in the American Civil War period.

The legendary story of two friends, Union Gen Hancock and Confederate Gen Armistead, torn apart at the turning point of the Civil War.

Bounty jumpers would enlist, receive the money, and the desert only to reenlist elsewhere and receive another payment. Here’s how they exploited the system and got away with it.

Think you hate being reminded of your deadlines now? Wait until you hear about its origin.

The birth (and death) of the Balloon Corps would be the base of what soon would become the Air Force that we know.

When the North and South were clashing against one another, fighting for what they believed in, spies played a huge part in most parts of the American Civil War.

The scorched earth tactics have been used for the longest time, back from the Scythians, and the latest one being the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

During the American Civil War, when racism was a major issue, it was used as the main weapon against the very same side that was practicing it: The Confederacy.

There was one incident that sounded fake during the Civil War but definitely happened. It was when the wounded soldiers glowed blue in the dark.

Today, we would call Joshua Chamberlain, the rhetoric professor with a stutter, a nerd. How wrong would we be!