History comes alive as we metal detect a Civil War battlefield where a cavalry officer made his final stand. The relics we uncovered offer powerful insight into his last moments and the brutal reality ...

Charles H. Walker's family is committed to preserving and sharing his diary, which has entries from September 1861 through ...

Before Lincoln turned the idea of “the Union” into a cause worth dying for, he tried other means of ending slavery in America ...

Charles H. Walker settled in Columbia County after the war, and his descendants are committed to preserving and sharing his ...

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 ...

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These soldiers, part of the U.S. Colored Troops, made up one-tenth of the fighting forces for the Union Army ... Archives and the African American Civil War Museum in Washington, D.C. Once ...

Some of the documents describe hair-raising episodes in American ... war letters is from then-Ohio Gov. Rutherford B. Hayes, Bell told me. Hayes had fought for the Union against Wharton in the ...

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

The statue, by sculptor Gerald Anthony Shippen, will depict the Cheyenne and Arapaho chiefs Black Kettle and Left Hand, as ...