Back in the American Civil War, the American military founded its first aerial force, the Union Army Balloon Corps. Thank Union desperation and several entrepreneurs American aeronauts with a good ...

For generations, the Army was to be the only force for law and order throughout thousands of square miles. As the Army explored this vast new conquest, the Corps ... Union Army during the Civil ...

John Reynolds -- commander of the 1st Corps ... could have sent the Union Army reeling at the outset of what many consider the most significant battle of the Civil War. In Reynolds' place ...

A new book unearths the startling numbers behind underage enlistment during the Civil War Frances ... view of the Union Army up to the present day. As a political and cultural symbol, the boy ...

Over the four years of the American Civil War – from 1861 to 1865 – the majority of military casualties were suffered by Union forces. To maintain the integrity of the Union, federalist states ...

Each time you drive down Western Boulevard in Raleigh, you're passing by a hidden relic from the Civil War ... 20th Army Corps. was camped out around modern day Dix Park, where Union soldiers ...

Newly formed Union regiments in the Civil War were typically made up of about 1,000 troops – 97 0 enlistees and 30 officers. In each regiment on this list, more than 200 soldiers were killed or ...