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During four years of carnage on hundreds of Civil War battlefields, a handful of units earned reputations as elite, batde-hardened forces. Soldiers in these units prided themselves on their regiment, [...]

After two days of fierce combat and rampant carnage, the Battle of Gettysburg climaxed on the afternoon of July 3, 1863, when 12,000 Confederate troops failed to break the center [...]

CONSTRUCTION WORKERS STRUGGLED to disassemble the large, marble statue of the Civil War general, but they got the job done. The toppled memorial was hauled off to a remote storage [...]

Looking out over the crowd at the edge of Gettysburg's new National Cemetery on November 19, 1863, Abraham Lincoln called on listeners to make sacrifices for their divided nation and [...]

The article offers information on four years of carnage on hundreds of Civil War battlefields, a handful of units earned reputations as elite, battle-hardened forces. Topics include examines that soldiers in these units prided themselves on their regiment, brigade, or division's reputation and laurels, often earned at considerable sacrifice.

The article examines the debate over whether the Battle of Gettysburg in Pennsylvania was the most important battle of the Civil War using news articles and soldier correspondence to examine the battle's impact. It states following the Battle of Gettysburg, letters to loved ones and diary entries defined it as a decisive battle. It talks about newspapers in Northern states which compared the Battle of Gettysburg to the Battle of Waterloo in Belgium and other battles of the French Revolution. INSET: JOHN BACHELDER'S DREAM.

The article discusses the making of a Washington, D.C., memorial to U.S. Army major general George Gordon Meade, which was dedicated after several delays on October 19, 1927, at a location west of the U.S. Capitol building. It also discussed the memorial's disassembly and rededication in October 1984.