The astounding true story of a Civil War soldier who tended to the wounded from both sides of one of the war's bloodiest battles.

The NPG's Warren Perry visits the Frederickburg National Military Park and discusses the Battle of Fredericksburg, which took placed on December 13, 1862. Part of our ongoing series commemorating the ...

Somehow, we imagine that the politics of the past was more civil, more genteel, more rational. But it wasn’t. By Jamelle Bouie Before we understood what war did to its survivors, tens of thousands of ...

Walking tour of the 1862 Battle of Fredericksburg, tracing Union river crossings, street fighting, and repeated assaults on Marye’s Heights and Sunken Road.

In December 1862, Union forces under General Ambrose Burnside launched a doomed assault against entrenched Confederates in Fredericksburg, Virginia. This video breaks down one of the most lopsided ...

Owned by Fredericksburg businessman Peter Goolrick, the building on Lot 38 was assessed at $1,000 in 1860, local researcher Nancy Moore said. It vanishes from the tax records by 1865. That, combined ...

"It is well that war is so terrible. We should grow too fond of it." —Gen. Robert E. Lee at Fredericksburg Most Civil War battles were fought during the spring and summer months. The armies of the ...

Throughout much of the Civil War, a key Union objective was to penetrate the South and seize the city of Richmond, Virginia, the capital of the Confederacy. In order to take the city, Union troops had ...