But most Black Civil War soldiers never saw combat ... and imprisoned him for desertion in mid-1864. During his incarceration ...

Virginia did not allow Black residents to vote until after the Civil War. But during the war, a group of Black soldiers in ...

In 1864, amid the U.S. Civil War, Abraham Lincoln was elected to his second term as president. He was assassinated five ...

Many of the war’s earliest casualties were left on the field for days before they died or were removed to hospitals. But both armies soon developed litter corps and ambulance services. They ...

A state park in North Dakota containing the name of a Civil War-era general who led attacks against Native Americans has been ...

There was no big fanfare. Only a handful of people gathered to pay their respects. Yet there was something profound about the ...

This column is composed a week or so in advance of being printed in the newspaper. A contentious election will have taken ...

Agents told they could face felony under a law passed in 1865 even if responding to a fake threat at polling places. At least one retired FBI agent blasted the memo for treating "street agents like ...