Seventy Black Union military members who fought in the Civil War will be memorialized in a monument planned for Rocky Mount in Franklin County, Virginia.

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

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

While we can’t definitively say Abraham Lincoln was gay, we’re pretty certain he shared his bed with men on multiple ...

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 ...

An effort is afoot to tell the story of the 1st South Carolina Volunteers in a six-acre park between Boundary Street and Battery Creek.

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 ...