The Chesapeake Sheriff's Office recently announced a donation of two new cemetery markers to honor Afro-Union Civil War ...

Join us on a hunt through history as we search for and recover Civil War artifacts hidden underground for over 100 years. Each piece we unearth—from coins and buttons to bullets and buckles—offers a ...

Elizabeth Van Lew, a Southern belle turned Union spymaster, exemplifies true heroism during the Civil War, challenging the diluted modern concept of a hero.

One can also admire the ibex sculptures standing sentry at broad ceremonial staircases and track the puzzling contours of the distinctive—almost Star Trek ... protracted civil war, men and ...

It was first widely observed on May 30, 1868 to commemorate the sacrifices of Civil War soldiers, by proclamation of Gen. John A. Logan of the Grand Army of the Republic, an organization of former ...

The SOLDIERS' AND SAILORS' MONUMENT, situated on the southeast quadrant of Cleveland's PUBLIC SQUARE, is the city's major CIVIL WAR memorial. Designed by LEVI T. SCOFIELD, the monument was dedicated ...

Speakers ask fellow citizens to remember the attributes that tie the nation together rather than those that divide us. Among ...

It is through her careful investigation of numerous records collections, newspapers, letters, and other sources that we can view the health of the black Civil War soldier through dual prisms ...

Hundreds of women secretly joined the Union and Confederate armies during the Civil War. Some women were brazen enough to enlist as self-appointed officers, or double as female spies. The Truth ...

CAPITAN, N.M. (KRQE) – A New Mexico native who was held as a prisoner of war and killed during World War II was accounted for in February, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency announced Friday.

War is boring as hell in “The Damned,” an austere western drama set far from the battlefields on the 1862 frontier. It seeks not to tell a story but to capture a set of feelings. None of them ...