These objects belonged to the men and boys who fought on the front lines for both Confederate and Union forces ... cherished through a photograph. This section displays objects that helped the soldier ...

Even as the Civil War raged on, Union soldiers erected monuments to mark where they fought and where the fallen were buried.

Archaeologists have identified two potential mass graves of Black Union soldiers who were targeted by Confederate guerrillas ...

For Janet Whaley, the American Civil War was never more real as when she held in her hands the discharge papers of one Elias Whaley, a Union soldier in ... Whaley’s family connection led her ...

The wounded soldiers above were photographed at a hospital in Fredericksburg, Virginia, between 1861 and 1865. Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs ... the Civil War and her own family ...

Live Science reports that archaeologists believe they have found evidence of a forgotten and grim event of the Civil War. On ...

Photograph showing Union soldiers with rifles at attention in front of the Capitol. May 13, 1861. Courtesy: Library of Congress Whitman was forty-two years old when the Civil War started.

The Civil War was the deadliest ... to New England, where family connections were discovered. One of these soldiers was Byron ...

The Union Civil War Soldier Monument Advisory and Implementation ... “He was a man who had pride in himself and his family, and his Africanness,” Arthur Carter said. “He was arrested not ...