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

We were happy to get them reinterred quickly, quietly and respectively,” said Jack Gary, director of archaeology for The ...

On September 17, 1862, over 23,000 soldiers fell in a single day near the small town of Sharpsburg, Maryland. The battle ...

The directive could be expanded to include other military vessels named for prominent American civil rights figures, said ...

The Union soldiers were driving 900 head of cattle towards Louisville when they were surprised by a Confederate attack where ...

After 155 years, the remains of Lt. Andrew Jackson Buttram - believed to be the last Confederate soldier killed in battle - were recovered in Munford, Alabama. Shot just eight days after Lee’s ...

Around 4:00 p.m., Union positions north and west of Gettysburg broke. Federal troops retreated through town to Cemetery Hill and Culp’s Hill, forming a fishhook-shaped line along Cemetery Ridge.

Two reenactors unveil a veteran's headstone for Civil War solider Lt. John T. McMahan, who was killed during the Battle of ...

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According to James Ramage, a history professor at Northern Kentucky University (NKU), this particular nonevent helped the republic win the Civil War. "The Confederate Army invaded Kentucky ...

Veteran, Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War member, and retired Des Moines Fire Investigator Bob Niffenegger was cleaning headstones and beautifying the Grand Army of the Republic area in ...