Map: American Civil War (Eastern Theater). Source: TheCollector.com The battle of Antietam—Charge of Burnside 9th Corps on the right flank of the Confederate Army. E. Forbes, September 17, 1862.

With Louisiana’s militias off fighting in Virginia and Tennessee, the job of defending the Crescent City fell to two forts ...

The Union blockaded the Confederate coast during the American Civil War as part of the Anaconda ... cannonballs and shells. In March 1862, the CSS Virginia and USS Monitor, two new ironclads ...

At the time of the Civil War, camera shutters were too slow ... Frank Vizetelly was nearly killed at Fredericksburg, Virginia, in December 1862, when a “South Carolinian had a portion of his ...