In his years as the trusted war horse of Gen. George Meade, Old Baldy fought for the Union in bloody battles from Antietam to Gettysburg. Well over a century later, he's in the middle of a court ...

The Civil War was also the first time Catholic chaplains were officially welcomed into the United States Army.

In his 1960 poem, "For the Union Dead," Robert Lowell contrasts the nearly forgotten civic virtue of "Colonel Shaw and his bell-cheeked Negro infantry on St. Gaudens' shaking Civil War relief ...

The War Horse in Red Dead Redemption is one of the four 3-Star breeds that you can get in the game. It was introduced as part ...

They study photographs of Civil War dead for guidance about the grotesque positions assumed by men who've "taken a hit" from rifles and cannons. A few — the truly hard-core — go so far as to ...

Looking back on the Civil War in his 1882 “Specimen Days & Collect,” Walt Whitman reflected that “the real war will never get in the books.” He had tried, in “Drum-Taps” (1865), a ...

The Obama administration on Tuesday defended its effort to regulate the tax return preparation business for the first time in U.S. history, basing its case largely on a 19th century law dealing ...

Commemorating the anti-Treaty dead. During the Civil War, republicans found it difficult to publicly mark or to commemorate their dead. Senior IRA officer Ernie O’Malley recalled: ...

The Civil War's Lost Massacre. Season 22 Episode 1 | 55m 23s Video has Closed Captions | CC. Originally a supply depot for Union forces in Kentucky, Camp Nelson became the site where 10,000 Black ...

Over 91,000 soldiers from Wisconsin fought in the Civil War, and more than 12,000 gave their lives to help end slavery. Three regiments from Wisconsin served in the Iron Brigade — the 2nd ...

IRS rides 1884 'dead horse' law to defense of tax preparer rules. Sept. 24, 2013, ... basing its case largely on a 19th century law dealing with horses lost or killed in the Civil War. ...