Shiloh National Military Park in Tennessee was the site of a bloody Civil War battle to control the Confederate Railroad ...

We feature a special broadcast marking the Juneteenth federal holiday that commemorates the day in 1865 when enslaved people ...

A look at what happened April 7-12, 1861, before the firing on Fort Sumter in Charleston, South Carolina. The shots fired spurred the start of the Civil War.

The US Civil War, fought from 1861 to 1865, was a defining moment in this nation’s history settling the question of slavery once and for all. It was by far the bloodiest conflict that the United ...

Confederate General P.G.T. Beauregard was put in charge of Charleston's defenses. "Beauregard, actually, had been at West Point, a pupil of Anderson's. And they were actually friends," Larson said.

April 12 marks the anniversary of the start of the American Civil War in 1861. ... 1861 when Confederate Gen. P.G.T. Beauregard's artillery fired on the Union occupied Fort Sumter.

A West Point graduate, Beauregard was an expert in engineering and artillery, building fortifications in his home state of Louisiana and elsewhere, prior to the Civil War.

These armies were led by some of the most well-known generals of the war, including George B. McClellan and Ambrose E. Burnside on the Northern side, and P.G.T. Beauregard and Robert E. Lee of the ...

One of his classmates was P.G.T. Beauregard ... He also found a mentor by 1861 in former Ohio Gov. and Secretary of the Treasury Salmon P. Chase. With the outbreak of the Civil War in 1861, ...

The LeMat’s minimal use during the Civil War was in the hands of the Confederacy. Initial intentions were to market it to the U.S. Army, partnering with LeMat’s wife’s cousin Major P.G.T. Beauregard.

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Civil War author Sean Chick talked about Confederate General P.G.T. Beauregard at the annual “Emerging Civil War” blog symposium. He ...

Civil War author Sean Chick talked about Confederate General P.G.T. Beauregard at the annual “Emerging Civil War” blog symposium. He described General Beauregard’s relationship with ...