The Chesapeake Sheriff's Office donated cemetery markers at a Civil War memorial to honor Black soldiers that fought for the ...

cavalry charge, musket fire, or carrier-launched aerial reconnaissance platform? Most slot nicely into what we remember about the American Civil War from history class, but that last one jumps out.

On a forgotten Civil War battlefield, we discovered relics that may have belonged to a fallen cavalry officer. These finds help reconstruct a powerful story of courage, struggle, and sacrifice.

While infantry muskets were largely standardized during the American Civil War, cavalry units used an incredible variety of different designs, with the Union cavalry employing dozens of different ...

Before James Nagle was a general in the Civil War, he led a company of Pennsylvania volunteers to Mexico City during the Mexican-American War in 1846-48. There, Nagle befriended a young Mexican boy, ...

Hart had to fear during the Civil War. As a White Army officer ... the USCT regiment for the last year and a half of the war. The cavalry unit helped capture the strategic Bermuda Hundred and ...