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A behind-the-scenes look at the 2 weeks leading up to the firing on Fort Sumter: Part 2
A look at what happened April 7-12, 1861, before the firing on Fort Sumter in Charleston, South Carolina. The shots fired ...
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Book Review: Dreams of Victory: General P. G. T. Beauregard in the Civil War
Sean Michael Chick’s new biography of the important, but controversial, Confederate general P. G. T. Beauregard concentrates on the man in the Civil War. Unlike Robert E. Lee, he has not been the ...
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"The Demon of Unrest": Recounting the first shots of the Civil War
Confederate General P.G.T. Beauregard was put in charge of ... But 750,000 Americans would be killed before the Civil War ended in 1865. Four years to the day after Sumter fell, Anderson ...
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The Gentleman’s Agreement That Ended the Civil War
On orders from generals ... Court House to stop the fighting between their two armies. The most punishing conflict ever fought on American soil was coming to an end. The Civil War was entering ...
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Book Review: The Mexican-American War Experiences of Twelve Civil War Generals
Johnson (Lipscomb University) has collected essays on the wartime service of a dozen generals ... Lee, Beauregard, Bragg, Jackson, Joe Johnston, and Longstreet – to see how their experiences in ...