Reformers in the Republican Party, which dominated national politics in the 1860s and 1870s, had been calling for a ...

Leaving after sundown, the men crossed the Potomac, then walked all night in ... The raid ultimately hastened the advent of the Civil War.

The women have openly picked sides and are filming accordingly, except for Stacey, who chooses to be a maverick.

One of the most important battles of the U.S. Civil War -- and indeed of all U.S. history ... Lee, and the Union Army of the Potomac under General George Meade, fought what may have been ...

Mathew Brady's legacy is synonymous with the photographic legacy of the Civil War ... Early in the war, Gardner was the official photographer of the Army of the Potomac, after which he established ...