The imminent battlefield was 57 miles away, and already the first guns had sounded along Bull Run. Beauregard spread his brigades on a nearly ten-mile front behind the winding stream, from near Stone ...
More than a century before streaming platforms and superhero cinematic universes, American filmmakers were already chasing scale, spectacle, the war film and national history. One of the boldest ...
On a summer day after the Civil War began in 1861, civilians including elites, politicians and socialites packed picnic baskets and drove their carriages to Centreville, Virginia, to watch what would ...