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12:13 AM EDT, April 19, 2011
150 years ago, the bloodshed started here
A good deal of blood was spilled on both sides. … It was one battle from the President Street Depo —- to the Camden Street depot — I can say no more.
Civil War Faces
This catalog of portraits from the Civil War focuses on the faces of soldiers from both Hampton Roads and the North who lived here, served here and -- in the cases of many Union veterans -- remained here to live after the war ended. -- Mark St. John Erickson
Find: Civil War events around Maryland
Find Civil War exhibits, lectures, reenactments and more.
Pictures: Maryland during Civil War
See pictures of Maryland's role in the Civil War.
12:49 AM EDT, April 7, 2011
Hiking Manassas National Battlefield Park
You get two battles for the price of one at Manassas National Battlefield Park, about 25 miles southwest of Washington.
12:47 AM EDT, April 7, 2011
Hiking Fredericksburg & Spotsylvania
Midway between Washington and Richmond, this town on the Rappahannock River was fought over and around repeatedly. There are four different battlefields and related historic sites at the Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania County Battlefields Memorial National Military Park.
12:43 AM EDT, April 7, 2011
Hiking Antietam National Battlefield
Antietam National Battlefield is one of my favorite Civil War sites, even though it appears my ancestor missed this fight, the bloodiest day of any battles in the war.
12:40 AM EDT, April 7, 2011
Hiking Gettysburg National Military Park
The site of the largest and most storied of all Civil War battles, Gettysburg National Military Park has the grandest visitor center of the battlefield parks.
4:23 PM EDT, April 6, 2011
Want to really tread hallowed ground?
Maryland commuters have long known that there are only three ways to cross the Potomac between Point of Rocks and the nation's capital. What they don't know is that a century and a half ago, there were more than a dozen.
4:24 PM EDT, April 6, 2011
Civil War sites in Maryland
While the first shots of the Civil War were fired on Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor in South Carolina, the first blood spilled in fighting occurred in Baltimore on April 19, 1861.
4:34 PM EDT, April 6, 2011
Civil war events
Sesquicentennial events abound as the four-year observance of the Civil War begins this week. Here's a sampler of those coming in the next few months.
Pictures: Antietam: September 17, 1862
Bloodiest battle of the Civil War
Pictures: Manassas Civil War battleground
See pictures of the battleground.
April 10, 2011
A Civil War road trip
Ken Burns, whose landmark documentary on the Civil War established him as one of its quintessential authorities, thinks there's no better way to get a sense of the Civil War than to visit its battlefields, museums and national parks.
April 10, 2011
Civil War deeply rooted in Virginia
On a blustery late-winter afternoon at Manassas, where a muscular statue of Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson marks the spot where the Confederate general earned his nickname, the Civil War lives, not separate from life in Virginia, but intricately entwined with it.
April 11, 2011
A chapter that's all but forgotten: When the Civil War came west
Things hadn't gone according to plan -- do they ever in war? -- and now, Lt. James Barrett was going to make them right.
April 10, 2011
Events marking the 150th anniversary of the Civil War
The remembrance of the 150th anniversary of the first shots of the Civil War at Ft. Sumter, S.C., underway until April 17 will give rise to a host of reenactments throughout the nation until 2015, although you're unlikely to see one on a National Park Service battlefield.
Pictures: Remembering the Civil War in songs, films and books
April 12 marks the 150th anniversary of the beginning of the American Civil War, which means we've had plenty of time to gain some perspective on one of the most momentous and formative events of our nation's history.
Pictures: Civil War Era Display
The Historic Bethlehem Partnership has a year of events planned to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the Civil War.
