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McGrath (James Monroe) takes the long road to Gettysburg in this rambling group biography of Gen. George G. Meade, Gen. Robert E. Lee, and President Abraham Lincoln. McGrath first focuses on the men’s ...

Gen. George Meade has been called “the Rodney Dangerfield of Civil War generals. He gets no respect. Tom Huntington wanted to find out why.” That’s how Stackpole Books introduces Huntington’s ...

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 ...

One of the bloodiest battles in American history is being remembered 160 years later. The Battle of Gettysburg, in addition to its ferocity, is known as a major turning point in the Civil War. On July ...

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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, ...

Former President Donald Trump has received backlash on social media after a rant about the Battle of Gettysburg in which he got numerous facts wrong. This battle, which took place from July 1 to July ...