The Battle of Cold Harbor was the Confederacy’s last major Civil War victory. Does it offer any insight into the mysterious ...

By the time the battle was won, at about 8:30 that ... needed immediate amputation. For all that, New Market Heights is little more than a footnote in Civil War history—a battle, scholars ...

"Incidents of the war: A harvest of death." The three days of conflict at Gettysburg resulted in 51,000 casualties, making it the bloodiest battle ... Civil War 1 in 5 — Average death rate for ...

One of the most important battles of the U.S. Civil War -- and indeed of all U.S. history -- was the ... If the South had won a major victory, some historians believe that it would have caused ...

It was all over in just 36 days ... Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few. The Battle of Britain was won. Eventually, World War II was won, and the exhausted ...

Here's what you need to know about the holiday. The three-day Civil War battle was a badly needed win for the North—but like all victories, it came with a price. From Pontiac's Rebellion to the ...