2012-12-15T18:12:23-05:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/a57/309487-m.jpgAuthor and University of Alabama history professor George Rable talked about the December ...

Soldiers take part in a re-enactment at Fredericksburg, Virginia to mark the 150th anniversary of the Civil War battle that took place in and around the town. (Photo for The Washington Post by Norm ...

FREDERICKSBURG — On the second floor of the old brick building on Sophia Street, the three Confederate snipers waited for the Yankees. They had their muskets at the ready, and paper ammunition ...

at [email protected] for details. Frontal assaults on an entrenched position rarely work. I get the idea, throwing a massive group of men at the enemy’s main line, designed to overwhelm them for a ...

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Somehow, we imagine that the politics of the past was more civil, more genteel, more rational. But it wasn’t. By Jamelle Bouie Before we understood what war did to its survivors, tens of thousands of ...

On Dec. 13, 1862, 150 years ago, during the American Civil War, a dramatic, a lop-sided Confederate victory occurred at the Battle of Fredericksburg, Va. For the Northern side, the battle was an ...