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

President James Buchanan sent the unarmed ship Star of the West with 200 soldiers and supplies on January 9, 1861. When it ...

The clip-clop of horse hooves, the bang of a cannon and the music melodies of the 1800s were heard at Theodore Roosevelt ...

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

Memorial Day is supposed to be about mourning the nation's fallen service members, but it's come to anchor the unofficial ...

Green Bluff’s Siemers Farm, known for strawberry and fall festivals, transformed into a Civil War battlefield this Memorial ...

Memorial Day became an official holiday in 1971, but it started in 1868 as Decoration Day. It began as an effort to remember ...

The historic Sherry-Butt House museum opens for the season this Saturday, May 24. Summer hours are 1 to 5 p.m. on Saturdays ...

Cavalry was certainly deployed successfully during this war, despite technological advances, albeit mainly on eastern rather than western fronts. The charge of the Australian Light Horse at Beersheba ...

Many individuals wonder if a civil case can indeed result in criminal charges. The answer is yes; certain actions that prompt civil lawsuits can also lead to criminal prosecution, depending on the ...

War is boring as hell in “The Damned,” an austere western drama set far from the battlefields on the 1862 frontier. It seeks not to tell a story but to capture a set of feelings. None of them ...