Ulysses S Grant was the biggest hero of the Civil War ... won fame at the battle of Shiloh, where he put down his drum, picked up a gun, and shot a Confederate colonel. All across the Union ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Garry Adelman, a historian, rates nine American Civil War battles in movies. He comments on the Civil War-era artillery and rifles on display in "Free State of ...

and the Army needed all the officers it could get. Custer went unpunished. Custer distinguished himself in several Civil War battles. After the war, he went West, where he led the Seventh Cavalry ...