The Battle of Cold Harbor was the Confederacy’s last major Civil War victory. Does it offer any insight into the mysterious ...

Ambrose Burnside's roller-coaster military career included early Civil War successes ... muttonchop whiskers—a style from which the term "sideburns" (a play on Burnside's name) was derived.

The Civil War, an epic nine-episode series by the award-winning documentary filmmaker Ken Burns and produced in conjunction with WETA, Washington, D.C., first aired in September of 1990 to an ...