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

After the American Civil War Battle of Gettysburg (July 1-3 1863), taken in conjunction with Grant’s capture of Vicksburg on ...

Civil War historian Ed Bearrs once called the 1864 battle at Newtonia “the final act of Price’s great raid, the largest mounted expedition launched on either side, a deep penetration raid.

On November 7, 1864, Syracuse’s Republican mayor ... Nearly four years into a bloody civil war that already claimed hundreds ...

O ver a century ago, President Woodrow Wilson established Veterans Day to honor “the heroism of those who died in the country’s service” after the First World War. Wilson proclaimed that the day, ...

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

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

Discover the unique aspects of the American Civil War, including the recruitment of companies of men from the same community.

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