The Civil War was fought in 10,000 places, from Valverde, New Mexico, and Tullahoma, Tennessee, to St. Albans, Vermont, and Fernandina on the Florida coast. More than 3 million Americans fought in ...

House serves as headquarters. The Surrender House’s Civil War story begins early in the day of June 27, 1863, when young and impetuous York businessman A.B. Farquhar rode past the house on his ...

The Civil War was entering its fifth year. Nothing in America’s experience in the past or since had been so brutal or costly. The toll on the nation had been enormous, and few had escaped its ...

The Battle of Gettysburg, fought on the first three days of July in 1863, resulted in more than 51,000 total casualties (dead, wounded, missing, captured), including more than 7,000 dead, yet it began ...

It also served as a headquarters for Union soldiers during the Civil War and became a field hospital. Lee and Brittani Lusk bought the house for $1.

Fifteen-year-old Private James Byrne was killed during the first week of the Civil War when he was struck by a sniper's bullet while leaving Sligo Gaol, the National Army Headquarters.