Before the Civil War, the biggest thing to happen in Gettysburg was a new railroad. Finished in 1858, it connected the Pennsylvania farm town to Hanover Junction some 20 miles away.

What is Cold Harbor on Severance? It could be tied to this major Civil War battle. The Battle of Cold Harbor was the Confederacy’s last major Civil War victory.

No Union victory in the Civil War came easier than the capture of New Orleans. When Union forces sailed up the Mississippi River in 1862 — just over a year after Louisiana seceded — the city ...

On July 4th, 1863, two Union Civil War victories were celebrated, Gettysburg and Vicksburg, victories considered the turning point in the Civil War that helped save the Union and the ...