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.

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 ...

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.

The Chesapeake Sheriff's Office donated cemetery markers at a Civil War memorial to honor Black soldiers that fought for the ...