However, this is not necessarily accurate, particularly as such figures are almost never available for the specific date of a battle. In the case of the Gettysburg Campaign, Union "Present for Duty" ...

The fighting of the American Civil War ultimately reached nearly every state in the Northern and Southern territories, with ...

Quickly promoted to colonel and then brigadier general, he led a brigade under ... known for the bloody Pickett's Charge during the Battle of Gettysburg. He and his men arrived two days into ...

The Civil War was an extremely divisive time in American history that split the North and South into the Union and the ...

With concise facts and anecdotes of war generals during battle struggles, this book debunks Civil War myths often thought to be true. Books for Kids: Gettysburg by MacKinlay Kantor (1987): For ...

One of the most important battles of the U.S. Civil War -- and indeed of all U.S. history -- was the battle of Gettysburg ... Union Army of the Potomac under General George Meade, fought what ...

February 12 marks the birth of one of the greatest leaders of the United States of America. On February 12, 1809 one person ...

This episode opens with a dramatic account of the turning point of war: the Battle of Gettysburg, the greatest ever fought in the Western Hemisphere. For three days, 150,000 men will fight to the ...

fresh division of the Army of North Virginia arrived under the command of General George Pickett (left). Other divisions of A. P. Hill's III Corps, which fought on the first day of battle ...