The American Civil War was by far the deadliest conflict in U.S. history. From the start of the war in April 1861, with the Confederate attack on Fort Sumter, until General Robert E. Lee’s ...

(WOWK) — When West Virginia became a state on June 20, 1863, the Civil War was still raging ... of Union troops at the Battle of Chickamauga in Georgia and Tennessee. After the loss, federal ...

For more information on events at both the Shiloh and Corinth Battlefields, please visit www.nps.gov/shil, or call the Shiloh ...

According to Timothy B. Smith, a history lecturer at the University of Tennessee at Martin, the Battle of Shiloh was the first big battle in the American Civil War. “20,000 dead in two days of ...

The Battle of Nashville Trust reached out ... To read more about other Civil War trail makers in Tennessee and in other states, visit their website. Two individuals with family ties to those ...

When I traveled to Franklin, TN, going to the historic Civil War sites wasn’t exactly my ... Well, it was the spot of the ...

The Tennessee Wars Commission, a division of the Tennessee Historical Commission, is responsible for administering grants through the Civil War Sites ... Williamson County. Battle of Nashville ...

While Lem was captured at the Battle of Big Black River Bridge ... In the case of these letters from a Tennessee Civil War soldier, who fought for both the Confederacy and the Union during the ...

more than three times the number fought in Tennessee, the state with the second most battles. (Here is a look at the most violent Civil War battles.) Though over 200,000 Union and Confederate ...