When Americans disagreed on the power of individual states to control their respective governments and institutions, they fought a war, between themselves, during 1861 to 1865. Other countries have also fought "civil wars." These stories focus on those people, places and events.
Fort Wagner was the garrison protecting the port of Charleston, South Carolina, at the beginning of America's Civil War.
After the Eleventh Corps disgracefully runs from battle, Couch''s Corps forms a new line of battle at Chancellorsville.
This painting depicts Charles I with his wife, Queen Henrietta Maria (of France) and two of their children: Prince Charles, who later became King Char...
Son of a beheaded British monarch, Charles II was Prince of Wales when his father was executed. At the time, he was living on the Continent.
While he was on the run, following his escape from Washington, John Wilkes Booth recorded his thoughts in a diary. Some of its pages are missing, lead...
Violet Crawley, the Dowager Countess of Grantham, knows a Russian aristocrat who fled Russia after the Bolshevik Revolution. What's the history behind...
This image depicts a scene from the investigation conducted by Nikolai Sokolov.
During the "high water mark of the Confederacy," General Armistead (whose friends called him "Lo") leads his Confederate brigade toward the center of ...
During America's Civil War, General Robert E. Lee was commander of the Army of Northern Virginia.
General Sherman devastated Atlanta during his 1864 "March to the Sea.
General Stonewall Jackson is known as one of the Confederate Army''s most-brilliant strategists and as General Lee''s right-hand man.
General James H. Lane (who had studied under Stonewall Jackson at VMI - Virginia Military Institute) provides an account of Jackson's shooting (at pag...
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