While the first shots of the Civil War were fired on Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor ... who’d debarked from a train on their way to Washington. Eight rioters, one bystander and three soldiers ...

President Donald Trump announced Tuesday that he was restoring the names of Confederate officers to seven U.S. military bases ...

Intended to defend Washington, D.C. from river approaches, Fort Washington was garrisoned by U.S. Marines during the Civil War. The current masonry structure, built in 1824, along with concrete ...

Most of the millions of visitors who stroll around Baltimore’s Inner Harbor each year have no idea the first soldiers killed in the Civil War died on Pratt Street, in front of the National Aq… ...

President James Buchanan sent the unarmed ship Star of the West with 200 soldiers and supplies on January 9, 1861. When it ...

The battle at Fort Stevens would be the only one fought in Washington ... Civil War: Lincoln’s personal playlist Troops marched into battle to the strains of "John Brown's Body" or "Maryland ...

WELL, TODAY MARKS THE 161ST ANNIVERSARY OF THE BATTLE OF ANTIETAM, WHICH TOOK PLACE RIGHT HERE IN MARYLAND AND REMAINS ONE OF THE MOST FAMOUS BATTLES OF THE CIVIL WAR. AND JOINING US LIVE THIS ...

Most folks will tell you the Civil War began April ... without notifying Washington first. A Dec. 27 message from Anderson to Floyd confirmed he had “abandoned Fort Moultrie because I was ...

The fields along Fox’s Gap in central Maryland are mostly ... and bayonet combat of the Civil War. Our route continued north past the first monument to George Washington, a tall, stone beehive ...