GETTYSBURG, Pa. (AP) – On the second day of fighting at Gettysburg, Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee listened to scouting reports, scanned the battlefield and ordered his second-in-command, James ...

Within the military, far and away the greatest influence of the lost cause of the Confederacy is in the Army: 10 major Army posts were named for Confederates, two Navy ships, and essentially nothing ...

Elizabeth R. Varon, a professor of American history at the University of Virginia, has written a handful of groundbreaking and prize-winning books about the American Civil War. I had previously ...

If you stand on Seminary Ridge at Gettysburg and look across the valley at the slope of Little Round Top, you can see why General Longstreet thought it was hopeless to try to take that hill. Now the ...

Former journalist and university educator Bruce Chadwick has written a different sort of book about the Battle of Gettysburg. Although titled “an oral history,” in fact it tells the story of the ...

GETTYSBURG, Pa. (AP) — On the second day of fighting at Gettysburg, Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee listened to scouting reports, scanned the battlefield and ordered his second-in-command, James ...