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A collection of diaries from a soldier in the 150th Ohio, Samuel Folsom, got auctioned off last week -- too rich for my blood, but the auctioneers posted excerpts online

#OTD in 1865, the morning after Appomattox, Grant realized he had a few more surrender details to iron out with Lee. Grant being Grant, he didn’t want to waste time

#OTD in 1863, some 24,000 Yankees in George Thomas’s army stamped their feet in the afternoon chill, gazing across an open field toward this hill, Orchard Knob. They were about

“The Battle of Perryville has never been understood by the general public. Fourteen hours of fire and smoke, with lead and iron hail, deserves more than a contemptuous notice.”—Marshall Thatcher,

#OnThisDay in 1862, one of the most sordid episodes in the Civil War occurred in a hotel in Louisville, KY, when Union Gen. Jefferson C. Davis murdered fellow Union Gen.

On November 7, 1861, a young general named Ulysses S. Grant narrowly “won” the Battle of Belmont, MO, nearly getting captured and shot when his raw troops got a TAD

“Uncle CivilWarHumor, tell us about the postal system!"“... really? Usually you ask about battles.”“This IS a battle.”“Ok, but strap yourselves in -- delivering mail in the 1860s was a bumpy

“Bring out your men, gentlemen,” Stonewall Jackson famously said as he launched the 2nd Battle of Bull Run #OTD, with an ambush at Brawner's Farm in the gathering dusk. It’s

Yes, there’s lots of serious discussion about the #Grant doc today. But that’s not why you come here. No, you come here for a painstaking, Zapruder-like breakdown of the film’s

Did you know? #MemorialDay was the brainchild of a Civil War general! Well, sorta. Although John “Black Jack” Logan gets credit for coming up with the national holiday, it was

Happy birthday to Charles Ferguson Smith -- Grant’s mentor and the dictionary definition of a “tough old sonofabitch.” He’s not a household name, cuz he died early in the war,

Happy birthday to John Gibbon, the artillery officer who molded the famed Iron Brigade and served at Antietam, Fredericksburg, and Gettysburg (where he helped repel Pickett’s Charge). Even more courageously,