South Carolina announced secession shortly after Lincoln's victory in the presidential election of 1860, and by February 1861 six more southern states had made...
By the beginning of the summer of 1861, two field armies of the Confederation were in Northern Virginia. General Beauregard commanded the Potomac Army,...
Maryland Campaign
On September 4, 1862, General Lee's army entered Maryland, intending to cut off the communications of the federal army and isolate Washington during...
Typography was invented twice: once in China and Korea and in medieval Europe. In China, printing was invented, according to some data (Julien, "Documents...
