Archaeologists in Virginia were excavating the grounds of a building that stored gunpowder during the American Revolution ...

Archaeologists in Virginia are trying to identify the remains of four Confederate soldiers who were killed in the Civil War.

Archaeologists in Virginia are trying to identify the remains of four Confederate soldiers who were killed in the Civil War.

The U.S. Navy plans to rename the USNS Harvey Milk, a fleet replenishment oiler named after the slain gay rights leader and ...

We were happy to get them reinterred quickly, quietly and respectively,” said Jack Gary, director of archaeology for The ...

On September 17, 1862, over 23,000 soldiers fell in a single day near the small town of Sharpsburg, Maryland. The battle ...

The directive could be expanded to include other military vessels named for prominent American civil rights figures, said ...

After 155 years, the remains of Lt. Andrew Jackson Buttram - believed to be the last Confederate soldier killed in battle - were recovered in Munford, Alabama. Shot just eight days after Lee’s ...

Around 4:00 p.m., Union positions north and west of Gettysburg broke. Federal troops retreated through town to Cemetery Hill and Culp’s Hill, forming a fishhook-shaped line along Cemetery Ridge.