The story behind Thomas O’Dea's harrowing drawing of the Confederates' Andersonville Prison in Georgia. Memorial Day events will be held at the site this weekend.

Vermont historians have their eyes on a historic painting up for auction this weekend, and the possible chance to bring it home to the Green Mountains.

Kara Walker: Confederate Prisoners Being Conducted from Jonesborought to Atlanta, from Harper's Pictorial History of the Civil War ... Winslow Homer: The War for the Union, 1862 — A Bayonet ...

Robert Townsend, a Civil ... the Union take control of the Mississippi River and cut off Confederate forces. Townsend next took command of the USS Wachusett, a large steam sloop-of-war assigned ...

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