Civil War National Parks Battlefield Preservation. There were over 10,500 military engagements during the American Civil War that were fought across 19 states. 50 of these are considered to be ...

To identify the states with the most Civil War battles, 24/7 Wall St. reviewed data from the National Archives Catalog from the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration.

It wasn’t just bullets and slashing swords that Isaac C. Hart had to fear during the Civil War. As a White Army officer leading Black troops, Hart faced the possibility of being treated harshly ...

The pistol saw action with the Confederate Army and Navy, and was theoretically the most lethal handgun of the American Civil War. The LeMat was a nine-cylinder .42 caliber revolver.

All told, as many as 3.9 mil lion enlisted during the war, according to the National Park Service. Against a population ba se of 31. 4 million in 1861, the year the war started, more than one in ...

The American Civil War Museum’s acclaimed new exhibit, “The Impending Crisis: How Slavery Caused the Civil War,” focuses on slavery as the key underlying cause of the conflict.

"[It was] probably his best day during the Civil War," Christopher Gwinn, chief of interpretation and education at Gettysburg National Memorial Park, said in an email to Military.com.

We may earn a commission when you buy products through the links on our site. In his insightful book “A Hell of a Storm: The Battle for Kansas, the End of Compromise, and the Coming of the Civil ...

In all during the war, 181 of the regiment’s enlisted men and officers were mortally wounded or killed, and 259 died from disease, according to the National Park Service.