Archaeologists in Virginia unearthed four skeletons, including one with a bullet in the spine, and three amputated legs.

Ulysses S. Grant on April 9, 1865, he surrendered an estimated 28,000 Confederate troops. Many remember this moment as the end of the American Civil War, but it wasn't the last army to give up to ...

They quickly surmised the bones were actually from the Civil War, when a makeshift hospital operated nearby and treated gravely wounded Confederate ... and a trouser buckle. One soldier had ...

In the final days of 1863, as the Civil War entered its third grueling year, the once-quiet waters of Matagorda Bay became ...

In 1898, 33 years after the end of the Civil ... war, had received the Medal of Honor fighting for the Union. The other, “Fighting Joe” Wheeler, the legendary Confederate cavalry general, led ...

We’re taught in school that the American Civil War ended when Confederate ... were finally breaking through Rebel lines. Confederate Robert E. Lee led his army out of Richmond and westward ...

Many fugitives were put into crowded camps, where starvation and disease led to a high death ... 1865, the Civil War ended with the surrender of the Confederate army. 617,000 Americans had died ...

A statue of Confederate ... Civil War commemoration statues—such as the one pulled down in Durham—were cheaply mass produced by northern factories, which simply switched the belt buckles ...

The Jessamine County Courthouse lawn is home to a one-of-a-kind Confederate Civil War monument that wears ... not why the statue wears a Confederate buckle, sports a Union hat and still exists ...