The Union soldiers were driving 900 head of cattle towards Louisville when they were surprised by a Confederate attack where ...

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

We followed an original Civil War map to see what time had hidden—and what we found was unforgettable. From bullets to buttons, every relic holds a piece of history. Experience the thrill of discovery ...

Brian Maloney remembers taking family road trips to Gettysburg and Fort Sumter and other historical sites, but never realized ...

Alemnge is among a group of artists using spoken-word poetry to denounce ongoing bloodshed in Cameroon’s English-speaking ... greeted it were real. The civil war has killed an estimated 6,500 ...

Florida was the third state to secede from the Union during the Civil War. Around 15,000 Floridians ... A distant relative of the famed English poet by the same name, Gov. Milton found himself ...

No Union victory in the Civil War came easier than the capture of New ... Mississippi — sacrificing thousands of men over dots on the map. But when it came to holding onto the South’s largest ...

C. Sellar and R. J. Yeatman cast the English civil war of the 17th century as a conflict between the “Wrong but Romantic” Cavaliers and the “Right but Revolting” Roundheads. The aftermath ...

Worcester has a number of fascinating secrets from the English Civil War hidden in plain sight, a case in point being the strange earthworks in a field tucked away by a housing estate in Ronkswood.

Siege coins, crafted from melted church silver in Carlisle during the English Civil War, are slated for auction. The coins will be sold as part of the Frank Waley collection of hammered silver and ...

It does not necessarily reflect the view of The Herald. A RARE Carlisle 'seige' coin used during the English Civil War is heading to auction. The Charles I shilling, minted in 1645, is expected ...

As passions continue to rise in this country, it is interesting to compare our situation with that of the English Civil War (1639–1650), in which the number of dead and wounded, as a percentage ...