This week in our series, Harry Monroe and Kay Gallant tell about some of the other early battles of the Civil War.

VOA: special.2009.09.03

The city fell. After capturing Atlanta, General Sherman fought a series of small battles with a Confederate force across northern Georgia.

VOA: special.2009.12.03

For three years, al-Shabab has led militants in battles -- mostly against the peacekeepers -- for control of Mogadishu.

VOA: special.2010.07.17

At first he is a captive, then a warrior, and after many battles, a prince of a royal family.

VOA: special.2010.07.10

One of the first battles took place at what is now Manassas National Battlefield Park in Virginia.

VOA: special.2011.04.09

Some of his friends who remained in the favelas were killed in gun battles with criminal groups.

VOA: special.2009.11.25

It would be the first in a series of battles known as the Seven Days Campaign.

VOA: special.2009.09.17

Some say the name comes from the thick collars of leather early Marines wore around their necks to protect them from cuts during battles.

VOA: special.2010.03.07

Many battles took place just off the coast of the United States.

VOA: special.2009.09.10

Many of the fiercest battles were fought on tiny Pacific islands.

VOA: special.2011.06.23

Suffering was terrible. An officer who led the wagon train said he learned more about the horrors of war on that one trip than he had learned in all of his battles.

VOA: special.2009.11.05

That needs to be understood. But this time, we need to put the story of emancipation at the center of this narrative, because what really transformed the United States, were not those battles.

VOA: special.2011.04.09

Major-General Khalid Rabbani said troops faced days of fierce battles with foreign fighters and,in the end, captured several large caches of weapons and supplies.

VOA: standard.2009.10.30

The Bala Baluk district, dominated by the Taliban, has been the scene of previous intense battles, some of which have caused significant civilian deaths.

VOA: standard.2009.09.12

Since Thursday night, there have been sporadic street battles around the red-shirt camp in the middle of an upscale commercial,hotel and residential district in Bangkok.

VOA: standard.2010.05.14

It is the story of an Indian in America who battles the double problems of fighting Asperger's syndrome and being a Muslim in a post 9/11 world.

VOA: standard.2010.07.22