Juneteenth, a pivotal celebration in African American history, commemorates the end of slavery in the United States, ...

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

Jim Ogden, former superintendent of the Chattanooga National Military Park and now the park historian, spoke to the local Chattanooga Civitan Club. His presentation was about the medical conditions of ...

John Leach learned that his great-great grandfather served in the Civil War and was buried without a gravestone, so he did ...

On May 26, 1900, the Geneva Daily Times told its readers the Union veterans would not parade on Memorial Day. The local ...

Two orphaned brothers headed west in search of adventure and a new life.  The story is common in the annals of the frontier. ...

U.S. President Abraham Lincoln called for volunteers to fight for the Union Army as the Civil War broke out between the ...

Memorial Day is supposed to be about mourning the nation’s fallen troops. But it’s come to anchor the unofficial start of ...

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

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.

Roving historical plaque dedicated to the “The ‘Battle’ of Adams Hill” that occurred May 9, 1861, during which only one gun ...