He said: “I always remember the civil war. It was the most difficult period of my life. “It was not my choice, but I had to be there, and had to do what I did in order to keep this country ...

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.

TRAVERSE CITY — Under the shade of trees, tucked into green spring grass, rest two new gravestones. The bright, white marble stands out, signifying that the souls resting beneath them ...

For more than a century in Des Moines’s Glendale Cemetery, the remains of 15 Union Civil War veterans rested in unmarked graves. They remained unmarked until Thursday, when the culmination of ...

Gen. Francis E. Spinner, treasurer of the United States during the Civil War, is credited with being the originator of the "shinplasters." R. Clifton Cooley of 19 Taconic St., son of Mrs. Angeline ...

He told me that tokens from the Civil War were privately minted in a kind of wild west fashion, because when the war broke out people began to horde the government-issued copper and silver coins. In ...

Handy was a formerly enslaved Louisianan serving at Port Hudson, a fort Black Civil War soldiers famously assaulted in May 1863. However, Handy did not become a celebrated warrior.

The remains of several more Civil War veterans were sent to Maine, Rhode Island and other places where family connections were found. "Would have been lost to history" Among them was Byron Johnson.