The battlefields of the Civil War are among the most evocative places in the American landscape. "Today you can stand at ... Antietam, at the edge of what is still a farm field, amd visualize the waves of infantry, feel the urgency, capture for a moment the meaning of how that day changed our nation's history. The land is there as it was, and for a few minutes you are part of that terrible day, part of history."

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Fort Sumter, South Carolina / J.M. McPherson -- First Manassas, Virginia / W.G. Robertson -- Wilson's Creek, Missouri / R.W. Hatcher -- Fort Donelson, Tennessee / J.Y. Simon -- Pea Ridge, Arkansas / W.L. Shea and E.J. Hess -- Glorieta, New Mexico / D.E. Alberts -- Shiloh, Tennessee / G.A. Reaves -- Fort Pulaski, Georgia / D.A. Brown -- Mapping the Civil War / R.W. Stephenson -- The 1862 Shenandoah Valley Campaign, Virginia / J.I. Roberston -- McDowell, Virginia / R.G. Tanner -- Cross Keys, Virginia / D.C. Pfanz -- Port Republic, Virginia / D.C. Pfanz -- The Seven Days Campaign, Virginia / H. Hattaway -- Gaines' Mill, Virginia / M.J. Andrus -- Malvern Hill, Virginia / M.D. Litterst -- Cedar Mountain, Virginia / R.K. Krick -- Second Manassas, Virginia / J. Hennessy -- Harpers Ferry, West Virginia / D.E. Frye -- Antietam, Maryland / S.W. Sears -- Corinth, Mississippi / G.A. Reaves -- A Civil War legacy / W.H. Webster -- Perryville, Kentucky / P. Hawke -- Fredericksburg, Virginia / A.W. Greene -- Stones River, Tennessee / G. McWhiney -- Chancellorsville, Virginia / R.K. Krick -- Brandy Station, Virginia / C.B. Hall -- Preserving Civil War battlefields / J. Heinz -- Gettysburg, Pennsylvania / H.W. Pfanz -- The Gettysburg Address / A. Lincoln -- The Vickburg Campaign and siege, Mississippi / E.C. Bearss -- Port Gibson, Mississippi / E.C. Bearss -- Raymond, Mississippi / E.C. Bearss -- Champion Hill, Mississippi / E.C. Bearss -- Port Hudson, Louisiana / L.L. Hewitt -- Chickamauga, Georgia / W.G. Robertson -- Chattanooga, Tennessee / C.P. Roland -- The Red River Campaign, Louisiana / L.H. Johnson -- Mansfield and Pleasant Hill, Louisiana / A.W. Bergeron -- Hallowed ground / S. Nunn.