Inside the steeple of Old North Church and among the Southern Colonies, less familiar stories of the events from 250 years ...

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Henry Wirz remains one of the most controversial figures of the Civil War. As commandant of Andersonville Prison, he oversaw ...

Stunt coordinator Cory DeMeyers breaks down the Civil War battle that opened season 4 and explains how it was designed to ...

Residents of southwestern Syria say they fear the prospect of an all-out war between Israel and Syria’s new authorities.

A look at what happened April 7-12, 1861, before the firing on Fort Sumter in Charleston, South Carolina. The shots fired ...

Inside the city left in ruins after two years of war Taking back the capital was a turning point in the two-year civil war ... in the Republican palace," one soldier told me as we walked down ...

COPENHAGEN/WASHINGTON, April 1 (Reuters) - A fourth U.S. Army soldier, who together with three others went missing in Lithuania last week when their vehicle sank in a peat bog, has been found dead ...

He was the highest-decorated Union soldier in the Civil War,” said David Eby from the ... like a tour guide at Gettysburg or running a museum and handling exhibits. I really enjoy telling ...

The Militia Act, passed by Congress in 1862, allowed free Black men and formerly enslaved men to fight for the U.S. during the Civil War. These soldiers, part of the U.S. Colored Troops ...

It might not sound like much to write home about, but the 21-year-old -- Lawrence Enderson Grimshaw -- happened to be a soldier stationed in the trenches during World War I. One century on ...