The WNC Civil War Round Table will host a talk on Unionist and Confederate perspectives of the Civil War in Transylvania ...

In the final days of 1863, as the Civil War entered its third grueling year, the once-quiet waters of Matagorda Bay became ...

Archaeologists in Virginia are trying to identify the remains of four Confederate soldiers who were killed in the Civil War.

A gun expert with over three decades of experience identifies five contenders for the world’s most powerful handguns. -These ...

THANKS TO THE EFFORTS OF THE SONS OF UNION VETERANS OF THE CIVIL WAR, THE CHILDREN OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION, AND SEVERAL ORGANIZATIONS NAMED AT THURSDAY’S CEREMONY. BUT THESE NAMES MAY NOT ...

War becomes an untouchable thing and the heroism of war becomes something sacred.” “The Damned” also has a timeliness to it amid the current American ... for the Civil War, how that time ...

The images of the fall of Saigon, on April 30th 1975, are indelible. A helicopter takes off from the roof of an apartment building, leaving behind a long line of would-be evacuees. Victorious ...

The Civil War lingers in memory as brutal and heartbreaking, but also as heroic and tragic, accompanied by an Appalachian campfire fiddle. It is the altar of American existence—a sublime ...

In this new episode of Kings and Generals’ Civil War series, we cover the Battle of Fredericksburg—one of the bloodiest and most devastating defeats suffered by the Union Army. As General ...

Louisiana native Pierre Gustave Toutant-Beauregard commanded Confederate forces ... Smith was noted for his fighting in the Mexican-American War and at First Bull Run during the Civil War, eventually ...

Meanwhile, the American ... under General PGT Beauregard began the bombardment. Major Robert Anderson, commanding the Union forces, surrendered the fort on April 13. Remarkably, no soldiers died ...