HANOVER, Pa. — On Tuesday, June 30, 1863, Hanover, Pennsylvania celebrated as Union Brigadier General Kilpatrick's cavalry rolled through the city's streets. "Hanover's citizens were giving them beer, ...

Edward G. Longacre, author of Joshua Chamberlain: The Soldier and the Man, Unsung Hero of Gettysburg: The Story of Union General David McMurtrie Gregg, and many other notable biographies, gives us an ...

A couple of years ago, historian Scott Mingus and I pulled together a list of unsung or overlooked York County Civil War sites. This is a good moment to share part of our list — on the eve of the ...

Historians have often cited the Battle of Gettysburg, July 1-3, 1863, as the turning point of the Civil War. Historians and history buffs remain perplexed by this question: What if Gen. Robert E.

When tourist dollars from Civil War buffs are in play, no battle is bigger than Gettysburg. The epic battle, which cost 51,000 lives in 1863, brings about 2 million people annually to a rural ...

One of the few ground rules observed with equal fervor by editorial writers and politicians is that the Civil War is about as amenable to levity as motherhood. It was a reasonably calculated risk for ...