The deadliest and bloodiest battle in American history was the Civil War, a long and hard-fought battle that began on April 12, 1861, and ended almost exactly four years later on April 9 ...

"Incidents of the war: A harvest of death." The three days of conflict at Gettysburg resulted in 51,000 casualties, making it the bloodiest battle of the Civil War. Courtesy: Library of Congress ...

For four straight years, Union and Confederate soldiers battled during the bloodiest war in American ... by the American people throughout the Civil War.

At the year's first meeting of the Bella Vista Civil War Round Table on Jan. 2, Dale Phillips, vice president of the ...

Gettysburg, the site of the largest and bloodiest battle of the American Civil War, was my favorite from the start. Every visit began at the interpretive center, which I recall being a rather ...

D.C., Monday 80 years after the start of the Battle of the Bulge. More than 22,000 Allied forces and civilians died in what became one of the largest and bloodiest fights of the war.

Considered the turning point of the Civil War, the Battle of Gettysburg was also the bloodiest, amassing an estimated 51,000 casualties. The three-day conflict took place in July 1863 at what is ...

Stoltz estimated that 1,032 men from the Cove fought in the Civil War and had a presence in nine of the 10 bloodiest battles. Most were about 20 years old at the time with some as young as 15 ...