(Read about battlefield artists during the Civil War.) Courtesy of W ... collection of Revolutionary War maps. Photograph by Design Pics Inc, National Geographic The troops had endured a long ...

(Read "Civil War Battlefields" in National Geographic magazine ... and the Confederate States—then fell silent. (Interactive Map: Battlefields of the Civil War.) As the smoke cleared the ...

In remembranceMonuments, like the one belonging to the 96th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry Regiment, can be found throughout Gettysburg National Military Park. Before the Civil War, the biggest ...

(Read "Civil War Battlefields" in National Geographic magazine ... and the Confederate States—then fell silent. (Interactive Map: Battlefields of the Civil War.) As the smoke cleared the ...

When soldiers living in Civil War encampments wanted to cast their vote for Republican incumbent Abraham Lincoln or Democrat George McClellan in the 1864 election, most were able to follow the ...

and the Russian Civil War. It’s the result of 15 years of collecting by authors Philip Curtis and Jakob Søndergård Pedersen, and several of the maps are the only known copies in existence.

A pen-and-ink sketch of the plan for the Battle of Cold Harbor made by Robert Knox Sneden, a map-maker for the Union Army during the American Civil War ... writes National Parks historian William ...

During the American Civil War, a group of Union soldiers commandeered ... Confederate troops from arriving. (These Gettysburg maps reveal how the South lost the fight.) Andrews had just returned ...

Lee’s surrender at Appomattox Court House, Virginia, on April 9, 1865, and is now on display at the Smithsonian's National Museum ... Court House to be the Civil War’s de facto conclusion.

A statue of Confederate Civil ... of national unity that embraced Southerners as well as Northerners, but importantly still excluded black people,” says Goodheart. Many Civil War commemoration ...

This colorful map from 1862 shows how ... Tubman’s devotion to civil rights and humanitarian issues continued for decades after the war. On the national front, she worked for woman suffrage ...