New Looks at the Civil War in the West. In this new book from Savas Beatie’s “Emerging Civil War” series, Sarah Kay Bierle and Chris Mackowski have collected forty-seven short papers by thirty ...

An exclusive interview with Chris Wheeler, producer and director of Civil War: The Untold Story. Wheeler discusses why he focused on the Western Theater in the five part series. Aired: 04/29/14 ...

On the Union side, a well-known astronomer became one of the most prominent general officers in the western theater. Ormsby Mitchel had been born in Kentucky but grew up in Lebanon, Ohio, and was ...

Everyone writes about the Eastern Theater, and Gettysburg has become the mecca of Civil War folklore. If there is one battle from the Western Theater like that, it would be Shiloh,” he said.

The Life and Wars of Albert Sidney Johnston. Timothy Smith, an award-winning author of the Civil War in the West, offers us this look at the life and wars of Albert Sidney Johnston, the first ...