The proposed memorial highway would run through tribal lands in Leelanau County, where descendants of Company K soldiers ...

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

Daniel Hough, a Tipperary man, was the first man killed in the US Civil War, where he served with the Union Army at Fort Sumter. Daniel Hough was born in 1825 in County Tipperary. He emigrated ...

who soon became the first known civilian casualty of the Civil War. Her accidental killing marked a grim turning point in the deadliest war in American history—a conflict that claimed the lives ...

Larson wrote his new book, "The Demon of Unrest," about the events leading up to the bombardment of Fort Sumter by Confederate forces – the first shots fired in the Civil War. Larson calls it ...

The city of Beaufort is developing six acres of prime property along Battery Creek into a park to honor the unsung story of a remarkable group of Civil War soldiers known as the 1st South Carolina ...

Historian Jay Winik writes about the leadup to the outbreak of the Civil War in “1861: The Lost Peace.” The' Andrew DeMillo ...

How we answer that question means everything. The first thing I love about this book is that I have learned much about US history since the Civil War. Jeter has revised the accepted timelines and ...

Burnside had a major impact on the Civil War. He conducted a successful campaign along the Carolina coast, with perhaps the first amphibious ... by Confederate sharpshooters, when a careful ...

On its face, “War of Rights” sounds almost like a joke. The Civil War-themed first-person shooter from ... to him and it meant a lot to them for us to do this. I think that says a lot ...