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.

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 ...

President James Buchanan sent the unarmed ship Star of the West with 200 soldiers and supplies on January 9, 1861. When it ...

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 ...

a brazen billion-dollar art theft; a gutsy woman who tricked the Nazis into releasing thousands of Polish prisoners; the ominous day-by-day countdown to the opening shots of the Civil War ...

Vermont’s Statehouse is known as a living museum, filled with historic and storied pieces of art. That includes ... s crucial to the Union’s victory in the Civil War,” he said.

In Kevin Costner's case, it seems his love for the Civil War era runs in his family genes. The actor, producer and director, whose new film, “Horizon: An American Saga,” comes out June 28, is ...