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The author of a number books on the Civil War, Kent Masterson Brown here undertakes the first comprehensive analysis of George Meade’s generalship as commander of the Army of the Potomac during the ...

We talk with Tim McGrath, author of "Three Roads to Gettysburg: Meade, Lee, Lincoln, and the Battle That Changed the War, the ...

Today, our Nation marks the 162nd anniversary of the Gettysburg Address, the brief yet immortal speech through which President Abraham Lincoln transformed ...

How a brilliant Union plan at the Siege of Petersburg turned into a disaster — and why black troops bore the worst of it. By Richard Slotkin In a Virginia field, some 7,000 Union soldiers were killed ...

July 3 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1608, French explorer Samuel de Champlain founded the Canadian town of Quebec. In 1775, George Washington took command of the Continental Army at Cambridge, ...

WILKES-BARRE — On the eve of the one of the most critical events in the nation’s history, General George Gordon Meade was ordered to assume command of the Army and move against the Confederates, who ...