Two years into the Civil War, black soldiers prepared for battle ... small Federal outpost north of Memphis, Tennessee. On April 12, 1864, some 1,500 Confederate cavalrymen under Major General ...

Several soldiers who were found going about the ... In prosecuting the search, the detectives came across a large number of Confederate grain bags in a shop, corner of Main and Twenty-first ...

The Klan was first organized in 1866 in Pulaski, Tennessee, by ex-Confederate soldiers. The first Imperial Wizard was former Confederate general Nathan Bedford Forest, who disbanded the Klan in ...

At Antietam and Gettysburg, the Union successfully repelled Confederate invasions of the North. Although the Union had been ...

Throughout written history weather events have influenced military outcomes. Scholars can point to Napoleon’s disastrous 1812 ...