With Louisiana’s militias off fighting in Virginia and Tennessee, the job of defending the Crescent City fell to two forts ...

Ambrose Burnside's roller-coaster military career included early Civil War successes ... derisively remembered as the "Mud March." In the trench warfare of Petersburg, Virginia, Burnside supported ...

The Civil War, an epic nine-episode series by the award-winning documentary filmmaker Ken Burns and produced in conjunction with WETA, Washington, D.C., first aired in September of 1990 to an ...