Beginning on Sept. 19, 1863, at meandering West Chickamauga Creek in north Georgia, there occurred the most sanguinary two-day battle in the western theater of the American Civil War 150 years ago.

The American Civil War was defined not only by its political and moral issues, but by a series of brutal, high-casualty battles. These conflicts altered the nation’s history and landscape. Fought on ...

On Nov. 25, 1863, 150 years ago, during the American Civil War, Union forces staged a spectacular breakout from besieged Chattanooga, Tenn. Routed Confederate troops retreated 25 miles to Dalton, Ga.

The first shot of the bloodiest battle of the Civil War was fired by a man from DuPage County. Lt. Marcellus E. Jones of the 8th Illinois Calvary was on patrol outside Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, ...

This 4-hour Civil War epic ditches clichés for historical accuracy, battle strategy, and gripping realism.

Stay on top of what’s happening in the Bay Area with essential Bay Area news stories, sent to your inbox every weekday. Quite a bit, it turns out, particularly regarding the bloodiest battle of the ...

The Battle of Cold Harbor was the Confederacy’s last major Civil War victory. Does it offer any insight into the mysterious world of the hit TV show Severance? The Battle of Cold Harbor was a ...

More than a century before streaming platforms and superhero cinematic universes, American filmmakers were already chasing scale, spectacle, the war film and national history. One of the boldest ...

SHERIDAN — On Jan. 16, 1865, John Prentice, a soldier in the Union Army in the American Civil War, participated in a battalion drill in Savannah, Georgia. In the three years prior, he’d witnessed and ...

Strategy is the focus of most of the modern military historians. Their driving assumption is that strategy is the ‘dog’ and tactics is the ‘tail.’ In other words, strategy shapes the course and ...

An annual battle reenactment will take place a the Fort Branch Civil War site in Hamilton next weekend, despite battle scars received from a skirmish with Mother Nature last spring, an organizer told ...