Recounts the life of a man who was a prominent Louisiana sugar planter, a Confederate Army officer, and an influential politician

At the start of the Civil War, Dr. William McPheeters was a distinguished physician in St. Louis, conducting unprecedented public-health research, forging new m

When Gen. Robert E. Lee fled from Petersburg and Richmond, Virginia, in April 1865, many observers did not realize that the Civil War had reached its nadir. A l

Woodworth shows how the lack of a unified purpose and strategy in the East sealed the Confederacy's fate.

The Civil War was the most traumatic event in American history, pitting Americans against one another, rending the national fabric, leaving death and devastatio