Filmmaker Ric Burns discusses the intricacies of making Death and the Civil War. My name's Ric Burns. I was the writer/director of Death and the Civil War: two-hour documentary film made/based on Drew ...
This version opens by identifying linear, Napoleonic-era tactics taught at West Point as a leading cause of casualties in the ...
From 1861 to 1865, the Civil War ravaged America. It still holds several notorious records, such as the highest number of ...
The war took a massive toll. According to statistics compiled by the National Park Service, 110,100 men on the Union side lost their lives in combat, and another 275,174 were wounded in action, while ...
The American Civil War lasted just four years, but its impact echoes through every corner of American life to this day. Most people know the basics — brother against brother, Lincoln, emancipation, ...
A Civil War soldier who died more than 160 years ago in Northern Virginia has been given a final resting place. He was laid ...