The Civil War is well known for great battles, famous generals and large casualties. But there was a lesser known side of the war, the guerrilla war where bands of civilians and soldiers joined forces ...

American women would not be welcome as full-time military members until 1948, but those who really, really wanted to fight ...

There the 16-year-old James took part in one of the worst atrocities of the Civil War. The Confederate guerrillas executed 22 Union soldiers in what a witness called a "carnival of blood," then ...

“Much of the worst unnecessary violence of the American Civil War happened because of what we would call today insurgents — what they called guerrillas,” says Aaron Sheehan-Dean, a historian ...

A sociopath who lived for spilling blood, William Anderson was one of the most fearsome leaders of Confederate guerrillas in Civil War Missouri. Jesse James joined Anderson's group in 1864 and ...

seeking to end decades of civil war that killed some 450,000 people. But pockets of the country are still controlled by assorted left-wing guerrillas, right-wing paramilitaries and drug cartels vying ...

At the time of the Civil War, camera shutters were too slow to ... being held prisoner by Quantrill’s Raiders, a band of Rebel guerrillas. Two other specials, C. E. F. Hillen and Theodore ...

The weapons that were not surrendered and the truce that did not last - How both sides viewed the events of 1945 ...