The year: 1861. The problem: Pro-slavery states had broken away from the Union, rising up in armed revolt as the treasonous ...

Ten months into the Civil ... of the war. Though coffee was cultivated around the world from Java to Ethiopia to Haiti, Brazil had been the main supplier to the United States. The Union blockade ...

For 250 years, the US Army has adapted as a living organization ... Meigs, future Quartermaster General for the Union Army during the Civil War, received the mission of constructing a permanent ...

Mark Matthews was a soldier who saw the U.S. Army evolve from horse-mounted cavalry to diesel ... along with every conflict from the American Frontier Wars to World War II -- and he was able ...

Attendees of the sold-out March 8 Springfield Civil War Symposium had gained a full ... underbrush would render the horses of the Union cavalry useless and frustrate its artillery for the most ...

Parker – the highest-ranking Native American in the Union Army during the Civil War – was removed from ... He later served as a colonel in the Second U.S. Cavalry and resigned with the brevet ...

This weekend, more than 2,000 people will participate in the reenactment of the Battle of Bentonville on the 160th anniversary of this Civil War battle ... as a Union soldier, cavalry, or civilian ...

Demonstrations and programs throughout the day will highlight military and civilian life during the Civil War, with a special ...

In the village of Appomattox Court House, Virginia, on April 9, 1865, Robert E. Lee surrenders his 28,000 Confederate troops ...