by Gordon Thorsby The "Land Merrimac" a.k.a. The "dry Land Merrimac" (Library of Congress) It is generally accepted that the first use of...

by Gordon Thorsby On the morning of July 5, the regiments assembled for roll call and then were dismissed for breakfast. The sergeants of...

by Gordon Thorsby Courtesy of the Mariner's Museum of Norfolk The surrender of Ft. Sumter on April 14 was a disappointment for the North....

by Gordon Thorsby Alexander Hart (1839-1911), was on the surface not unique when he was named a lieutenant in the Fifth Louisiana Zouave...

By Gordon Thorsby Governors raised recruits from about their respective states but in 1862, that was not entirely true. As casualties...

by Gordon Thorsby Five Men of the 118th PA for desertion executed Before the V Corps, 1863. From Alfred Waud (LOC) Desertion in the Civil...

by Gordon Thorsby Ezra Church, Engraving by Theodore R. Davis, published by Harpers Weekly What happened on the Northern side is that...

by Gordon Thorsby Wounded from Spotsylvania, 1864. Andress is prone and facing the camera. (photo M. Brady) Canadians didn't have to join...

by Gordon Thorsby Horse Shoeing of cavalry There were two mutinies that occurred with Union Cavalry regiments and the first occurred in...

by Gordon Thorsby Colonel John S. Mosby, C.S.A. In the recent years, there has been a burgeoning historiography on the irregular fighting...

by Gordon Thorsby Painting by Thure de Thulstrup The 26th Michigan Volunteer Infantry mustered-in on December 12, 1862, with 903 men. Its...

by Gordon Thorsby Current day Bridge across the Catawba River, Rock Hill SC Stoneman’s Raid of 1865 is considered the longest raid of the...

by Gordon Thorsby Sherman’s 67,000 man army crossed the Georgia line into South Carolina and encountered Confederate resistance at Aiken...

by Gordon Thorsby Front row, from left: Robinson W. Hands 20, Edwin V. Gager-47, not at Hampton Roads (HR); second row, Louis N. Stodder-...

by Gordon Thorsby The Interior of the Confederate Fortifications at Port Hudson (holes were dug by soldiers hiding from large caliber...

by Gordon Thorsby Lt. Henry W. Kingsbury, (From Time Life Series, Brian Pohanka Collection) History doesn’t know much about one Henry W....

by Gordon Thorsby The Accidental Ruins of Cheraw March,1865 (History of SC Collection) In late February, 1865 and after much of Columbia...

by Gordon Thorsby (courtesy of Library of Congress) Battles of the Civil War spanned across America in towns that had little impact and...

by Gordon Thorsby Maj. Gen. Fitz John Porter (Courtesy of Library of Congress) Boteler’s Ford on Sept. 19-20, happened after Antietam and...

by Gordon Thorsby There is probably more written about the 7thMichigan Cavalry than any other cavalry regiment from Michigan but the...