Irvin McDowell was a prominent figure during the early months of the Civil War. With so much at stake, he was called upon to lead the Union’s largest Eastern

Irvin McDowell was a major actor in the Civil War for a short, but critical time, and his life history deserves to be told and remembered. Like so many others,

Born into a distinguished military family, Fitz John Porter (1822-1901) was educated at West Point and breveted for bravery in the war with Mexico. Already a we

Based on nearly five decades of research, this magisterial work is a biographical register and analysis of the people who most directly influenced the course of

Two great, untested armies were readying for the first—and what many believed would be the last—major conflict between North and South. On the eve of July 2