Collection of diaries and letters from North Carolina soldiers who fought at the Battle of Gettysburg.

Hess tells the full story of "Pettigrew's Brigade," perhaps the best-known and most successful of North Carolina's units during the Civil War. The brigade playe

The American Civil War was scarcely over when a group of ladies met in Raleigh and began to plan commemoration for the honored Confederate dead of North Carolin

More than 60,000 books have been published on the Civil War. Most Americans, though, get their ideas about the war--why it was fought, what was won, what was lo

Remembering the Civil War: Reunion and the Limits of Reconciliation