Barton Mitchell discovered General Lee's plans for the Battle of Antietam. Little known history of Barton Mitchell, a corporal from Bartholomew County, who served in the Union Army during the Civil ...

As they paraded by him for the first time in March of 1864, soldiers of the Army of the Potomac knew the general in full dress blues, accented with sash and sword, was the freshly minted commander of ...

For Americans, the first half of April should bring to mind a host of events. It was in this month in 1865 the Civil War was largely ended, and the long painful task of rebuilding the nation began. It ...