Classes were suspended for most of the Civil War but that didn't mean the Knoxville campus went unused. Troops from both sides occupied it at times.

A local organization, 815 Stone Scrubbers, worked with volunteers to clean and dust off the gravestones of area Civil War ...

There’s something undeniably magical about standing on weathered wooden planks that have witnessed the passage of history, and Pennsylvania’s Sachs Covered Bridge delivers that time-traveling ...

Petersburg National Battlefield is located in South-central Virginia. The park offers driving tours of the siege and bat ...

But for reasons unknown, up to 7 feet of riverbed has been scoured away, excavating parts of the 130-foot-long ship not seen ...

An online car seller’s plans for 184 acres along Woods Edge Road would imperil a Civil War entrenchment that’s believed to have been carved out to thwart Union Gen. Benjamin ...

The Vicksburg National Military Park today stretches over 1800 acres worth of ravines, woods, and fields. The Vicksburg ...

Whether the debate is occasioned by a polemical book or a movie like last year’s “Civil War,” I consistently take the negative on the question of whether the United States is headed for a ...

Elizabeth Van Lew, a Southern belle turned Union spymaster, exemplifies true heroism during the Civil War, challenging the diluted modern concept of a hero.

Explore the American Civil War's history, causes like slavery and states' rights, key events including Gettysburg and Antietam, and the war's lasting impact on the United States ...

In a first-of-its-kind ceremony in Westmoreland County Monday, dozens honored the final Union Civil War veteran buried in the county, John E. Weigel.

Groups like Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War worked together to research information on 15 veterans so their graves would no longer be unmarked.