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In the fall of 1861, the Cheat Mountain Campaign marked one of the first significant military operations in western Virginia, a rugged region where both Union and Confederate forces sought to secure not just territory, but also vital transportation …

On September 10, 1861, Confederate president Jefferson Davis appointed General Albert Sidney Johnston to command the sprawling Western Department, a vast military theater that stretched from the Appalachians to the Mississippi River. The decision ca…

In this thought-provoking episode, we sit down with Dr. Robert Tracy McKenzie (Arthur F. Holmes Chair of Faith and Learning and Professor of History at Wheaton College), a renowned historian of the American Civil War and American democracy, to exp…