The Civil War was the deadliest war in America ... One deserted the Confederate Army to become a Union soldier, and another ...

These objects belonged to the men and boys who fought on the front lines for both Confederate and Union forces ... This section displays objects that helped the soldier get through the atrocities of ...

The Jessamine County Courthouse lawn is home to a one-of-a-kind Confederate Civil War monument that wears a Union soldier's hat. David Swartz is a historian and professor, who spent five years ...

What do you know about the Civil War? Everyone knows the familiar images: soldiers in Union blue versus troops in Confederate ...

After the Civil War, Arkansas veterans returned home and attempted to revert to civilian life. During the immediate postwar ...

These soldiers, part of the U.S. Colored Troops, made up one-tenth of the fighting forces for the Union Army. Now, 160 years later, 70 Black Union military members who fought in the Civil War from ...

Ten months into the Civil War, the Union was short on a ... was reportedly difficult to maintain in the Confederate Army, where, one Union soldier noted, “they get no tea or coffee but plenty ...

The problem: Pro-slavery states had broken away from the Union, rising up in armed revolt as the treasonous Confederate States ... Back in the American Civil War, the American military founded ...

a Scot who was struck down in Kentucky during the US civil war. As a Confederate soldier, he fought for the Southern pro-slavery states who wanted to break away from the Union. The conflict ...

Lucien Weakley’s weathered headstone stands beneath a towering magnolia tree that is surrounded by the graves of thousands of other Confederate ... Union — and then he was captured The Civil ...