Bartilson was one of four men to be honored by having his portrait installed in the Tuscarawas County Courthouse when it was ...

In his years as the trusted war horse of Gen. George Meade, Old Baldy fought for the Union in bloody battles from Antietam to Gettysburg. Well over a century later, he's in the middle of a court ...

The Civil War was also the first time Catholic chaplains were officially welcomed into the United States Army.

In his 1960 poem, "For the Union Dead," Robert Lowell contrasts the nearly forgotten civic virtue of "Colonel Shaw and his bell-cheeked Negro infantry on St. Gaudens' shaking Civil War relief ...

Looking back on the Civil War in his 1882 “Specimen Days & Collect,” Walt Whitman reflected that “the real war will never get in the books.” He had tried, in “Drum-Taps” (1865), a ...