There are many misconceptions about why people in photographs from the Civil War era aren’t smiling. Maybe the photo took too long to take, maybe the people were bored or maybe it was their b… ...

RALEIGH, N.C. – A haunting 150-year-old photo found in a North Carolina attic shows a young black child named John, barefoot and wearing ragged clothes, perched on a barrel next to another ...

The Hilton Head park has historical significance to the holiday: it was the site of a Civil War-era freedman's town, where formerly enslaved people were brought to start a new life.

See more photos of the Civil War's brutal battlefields, strangest personalities, its African-American fighters, the portraits of photographer Mathew Brady, and at LIFE.com. We want to hear what ...

Stanley B. Burns, MD, the Mercy Street on-set Medical, Historical and Technical Advisor, shares photos from The Burns Archive and an essay about hospitals during the Civil War-era.

Experts say rare Civil War-era photo of slave children found in NC attic, sold for $30,000. Associated Press. Published June 10, 2010 4:20pm EDT | Updated November 20, 2014 4:03pm EST.

PORTAGE, Wis.—On Abraham Lincoln’s 204th birthday, the Columbia County Veterans Service Office was the place where long-lost Civil War history was perused, electronically catalogued and… ...

The Civil War was fought in 10,000 places, from Valverde, New Mexico, and Tullahoma, Tennessee, to St. Albans, Vermont, and Fernandina on the Florida coast. More than 3 million Americans fought in ...

A Civil War-era photo album that belonged to the Beals family of Stoughton is to be auctioned for as much as $25,000 next Thursday in New York.

Lizzie Robinson Jenkins of Archer wants to make sure that the Civil War-era town of Rosewood is not forgotten. The 86-year-old historian and founder of the non-profit The Real Rosewood Foundation ...

Corinth, Miss. – It’s almost as if the battle had just ended. Strewn on the field are a knapsack, a bayonet, a tattered letter, a pistol, a canteen – the detritus of war. But this battle ...