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The Third Arkansas Cavalry was organized in October 1863 at Little Rock, becoming one of four Union cavalry regiments raised in Arkansas during the Civil War. Led by Col. Abraham Ryan, the Third ...

CHAMBERSBURG, Pa. (WHTM) — On July 30th, 1864, residents of Chambersburg got a rude awakening. The boom of a cannon announced that two brigades of Confederate cavalry commanded by Brigadier General ...

The Civil War, by far our nation’s most deadly armed conflict, used up men so fast that some officers became generals in their 20s. One was the Confederacy’s Thomas Lafayette Rosser, who became a ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. The First Battle of Bull’s Run (also ...

Once Arkansas was a part of the Confederacy, only time would tell what role we might play in the Civil War, especially since the beginnings of the conflict took place in the east. Early in the war, ...

With a chorus of rebel yells and the firing of pistols, more than 600 Confederate cavalry came swooping into New Windsor on July 9, 1864. The troop included 135 men from the 1st and 2nd Maryland ...

More than 100 motorcyclists — many toting Confederate flags — rode through Stone Mountain Park on Saturday morning after officials denied a permit for a Confederate Memorial Day celebration. The ...

During the first three days of July in 1863, the largest battle ever fought in North America occurred in the small Pennsylvania town of Gettysburg. More than 160,000 men from the North and the South ...