An exercise in searching

We would like to discover more information about the US Civil War battle of Stones River. Please note, this search is constructed as an academic exercise. There are some deficiencies in the logic of searching here, it is only to illustrate how to refine a search.

to to google.com, search for civil ware
- Notice that this produced results.
- Notice the
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Did you mean civil war
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Click on the correct search term (on the did you mean line)
- Notice the number of pages we found (on the blue bar)
Refine your search, search for civil war battle
- Notice the new number of results.
Refine again, add stones to the search list
- Notice the new number of results.
Refine again, add river to the search list
- Notice the new number of results.
Change river to RIVER in the search list
- Notice the new number of results.
- Does Capitalization have any effect?
When was this battle? (Add date to your search)
Why is the NPS page first on the list?
- This is related to the way google does it's search.
- They weight pages more important by the number of pages that link to them.
  - What does this tell you about the NPS page?
Let's look for Pennsylvania regiments at this battle.
- Add pennsylvania regiment
  - Notice the new number of results.
  - Notice how the words are highlighted.
- Add "pennsylvania regiment"
  - Notice the new number of results.
  - Notice how the words are highlighted now.
  - Adding quotes searches for phrases.
- Try putting changing stones river to "stones river"
- Go to the second page
- Notice that google omitted some entries, click on the link to view the additional entries.
- Revise your search again, replace "pennsylvania regiment" with "pennsylvania regiment at"
  - Notice the note about at under the keyword box
- One more revision, replace "pennsylvania regiment at" with "pennsylvania regiment +at"

Some questions.

How would we have had to change our search to look for the battle of Marston Moor?
How do you search for information about Richard I
Do these techniques work at every search engine?