Sweeping away many of the myths that have long surrounded Pickett's Charge, Earl Hess offers the ...

So remarkable was the fighting to the east of Atlanta on July 22, 1864, that it earned its place ...

For decades, military historians have argued that the introduction of the rifle musket-with a ran...

Throughout the Civil War, irregular warfare-including the use of hit-and-run assaults, ambushes, ...

Every time Union armies invaded Southern territory there were unintended consequences. Military c...

Pickett's Charge, the assault on the Union lines on Cemetery Ridge ordered by Robert E. Lee on 3 ...

On July 20, 1864, the Civil War struggle for Atlanta reached a pivotal moment. As William T. Sher...

The Western theater of the Civil War, rich in agricultural resources and manpower and home to a l...

Animals mattered in the Civil War. Horses and mules powered the Union and Confederate armies, pro...

In the Trenches at Petersburg, the final volume of Earl J. Hess's trilogy of works on the fortifi...

Earl J. Hess provides a narrative history of the use of fortifications - particularly trenches an...

The first comprehensive history of one of the greatest, most famous, and most “American” of al...