Civil War Education Association and American History Forum

By the summer of 1863, the Civil War had raged for two years, with some of the heaviest fighting occurring in Virginia. To relieve the suffering in Virginia and 'bring the war' to the Union states, Confederate General Robert E. Lee launched an invasion of Pennsylvania. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia marched north through Maryland and crossed the Mason-Dixon Line...

In 1862, within a few weeks after he drove away the Federals who had besieged Richmond, Robert E. Lee extended his theater of operations northward. Stonewall Jackson, the hero of the Shenandoah Valley but an enigmatic failure around Richmond, moved his half of the army into Orange County to counter the emerging new threat posed by John Pope...

After a Thursday evening overview at our base hotel in Jackson, Tennessee, we will set out on Friday for Parker’s Cross Roads, where in December 31, 1862, after a successful raid on U. S. Grant’s supply lines, Forrest found his escape route blocked, but despite being hit in front and behind, managed to escape....