Elizabeth R. Varon, a professor of American history at the University of Virginia, has written a handful of groundbreaking and prize-winning books about the American Civil War. I had previously ...

Within the military, far and away the greatest influence of the lost cause of the Confederacy is in the Army: 10 major Army posts were named for Confederates, two Navy ships, and essentially nothing ...

GETTYSBURG, Pa. (AP) – On the second day of fighting at Gettysburg, Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee listened to scouting reports, scanned the battlefield and ordered his second-in-command, James ...

COLUMBIA — There are the ghosts that haunt old buildings, and there are the metaphorical ghosts of the past that haunt our dreams and consciences, perhaps reminding us of things that we’d rather ...

If you stand on Seminary Ridge at Gettysburg and look across the valley at the slope of Little Round Top, you can see why General Longstreet thought it was hopeless to try to take that hill. Now the ...

Prof. Varon (UVa) has an impressive body of work on the Civil War, including Appomattox: Victory, Defeat, and Freedom at the End of the Civil War, which received the 2014 NYMAS “Eugene Feit Award.” ...

Much has been written about how, in the late summer of 1863, elements of the Army of Northern Virginia, under Lt. Gen. James Longstreet were sent west and played a major role in the Confederate ...