War artifacts are typically weapons and uniforms, but occasionally something so strange shows up, that even historians are at ...

At the Camp William Penn Museum in Cheltenham, thousands of Black Civil War soldiers are remembered for their contributions ...

Even though the Civil War has been thoroughly studied for over 160 years, new discoveries are still being made. Last spring, a Civil War-era cannonball was found in the backyard of a Virginia home.

And on June 10, 2006, the soldiers were buried with full military honors in the Massachusetts National Cemetery on Cape Cod. It was an authentic re-enactment of a burial from the Civil War period.

Four Confederate soldier skeletons from the 1862 Battle of Williamsburg were found at Colonial Williamsburg, with archaeologists working to identify the remains.

The telling of the Civil War saga began with the participants themselves. High ranking officers on both sides were required to write after-action reports providing their first-hand accounts of ...

Several families from around western Massachusetts have an historic and personal connection to the Civil War and Juneteenth, ...

The CSS "Shenandoah" only learned of the Confederacy's defeat in the summer of 1865. That June, the cruiser's crew sank 24 ...

The African American Civil War Museum in D.C. marked Juneteenth with a celebration to honor the estimated 6,000 Black soldiers who went to Galveston, Texas, 160 years ago.

Fifty-two Black veterans of the Civil War are buried at Providence's North Burial Ground. They will be honored June 21 as the community marks Juneteenth.

In January of that year, as the Civil War was coming to an end, a group of Black soldiers with the 5th United States Colored Calvary out of Camp Nelson were herding cattle to Louisville when they ...