Chickamauga resulted in about 34,000 casualties ... Reading the names on those headstones helps visitors understand the scope of the Civil War’s deadly toll, said Richard Harker, the Historic ...

It was in this month in 1865 the Civil War was largely ended, and the long painful task of rebuilding the nation began. It ...

One of the major accomplishments during the Civil War was the establishment of an ... Spotsylvania 30,000; Chickamauga 36,624; Gettysburg 51,000. Under the leadership of the Union’s innovative ...

This episode opens with a dramatic account of the turning point of war: the Battle of Gettysburg ... and the western battles at Chickamauga, Georgia, and Chattanooga, Tennessee.

The Chickamauga & Chattanooga National Military Park is the oldest and largest of America's Civil War parks, encompassing land both north and south of the Tennessee-Georgia border, with more than ...

Chickamauga had stalled the Union advance ... After Chattanooga, the Union remained on the offensive for the rest of the Civil War, with the Confederacy only able to score temporary defensive ...

George H. Thomas famously asserted. Later in 1863, he rallied Union troops in the Battle of Chickamauga, in Georgia. His equanimity shows in a Civil War portrait, as it did in the heat of combat.

John Bowers, author of Chickamauga and Chattanooga ... Professor Mark Grimsley of Ohio State University, a prolific analyst of Civil War leadership, ranks Thomas below Sherman and above Sheridan ...