A Day in the Life of the Civil War

Union Major General Benjamin Butler issued General Order Number 28 in New Orleans, Louisiana on May 15 th 1862, calling for any woman ins...

Northern born and raised, Confederate Brigadier General Johnson Kelly Duncan died December 18 th 1862 from malaria fever. Johnson Kelly...

Union Admiral David Farragut tried to run his fleet by the batteries at Port Hudson March 14 th 1863. Around eleven on the night of March...

United States Naval officer Andrew Boyd Cummings was killed in action March 18th 1863. Andrew Boyd Cummings was born in Philadelphia, Pe...

The USS Hatteras a Union blockade gunboat was sunk off the Galveston, Texas coast January 14th 1863. The USS Hatteras a 1,126 ton side-wh...

Learning of the surrender of Vicksburg, Confederate Major General Franklin Gardner surrendered Port Hudson on July 9th 1863. Major General F...