Jubal Early commanded a division of Confederate raiders who occupied a surrendered borough of York for more than 40 hours in late June 1863. As part of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee’s ...

On the night of May 9, 1863, a conflagration lit up the skies along the Little Kanawha River at Burning Springs at the site ...

The raiders also had several close calls with the enemy along the way as two of the Soldiers had to enlist in the Confederate Army to avoid suspicion. “They took a tremendous risk infiltrating ...

On August 21, 1863, William Quantrill led a group of 300 Confederate guerrillas and attacked Lawrence at dawn. On his orders, they aimed to kill “every man big enough to carry a gun.” ...

Nearly 13,000 soldiers died at this Civil War site. Andersonville National Historic Site is preserving their memory.

Naval warfare took on a global aspect when Britain provided the Confederacy with ships and sailors. Many Confederate Navy commerce raiders preyed upon Northern merchant vessels, thereby disrupting the ...

Civil War historian Scott Mingus served as a resource ... A year later, Farquhar offered that he again would enter the raiders’ lines and seek an agreement that York would offer no resistance ...