May 9, 1857 — In 1857, the United States was ... the end of the Civil War. As tensions mounted, John Hunt Morgan, a Confederate general from Alabama, formed the Lexington Rifles in 1857.

The Libertyville Historical Society is racing to save the rapidly deteriorating 165-year-old banner by fundraising $30,000 to ...

Two Civil War veterans who lived in northern michigan -- were honored this afternoon -- more than 100 years after t ...

THANKS TO THE EFFORTS OF THE SONS OF UNION VETERANS OF THE CIVIL WAR, THE CHILDREN OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION, AND SEVERAL ORGANIZATIONS NAMED AT THURSDAY’S CEREMONY. BUT THESE NAMES MAY NOT ...

Even far-fetched story points, like Russian tanks making it to an American battlefield in just ... user would see this in the middle of a civil war and think, "A dude did the dumbest possible ...

Roving historical plaque dedicated to the “The ‘Battle’ of Adams Hill” that occurred May 9, 1861, during which only one gun ...

One of the things I was most disappointed in about Garland’s 2024 release, Civil War, was the lack of real tension. I just never felt any real stakes in most of the movie. Maybe it’s because ...

The first Poet Laureate of the United States. And he called me up one time and said, "Thinkin' about the Civil War." He had this wonderful elliptical Kentucky accent. "Thinkin' about how ...

Acclaimed Civil War reenactor and historian Curt Fields ... the Grant National Monument, and on the American Battlefield Trust website. He has presented at dedication ceremonies at the Ulysses ...

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 ...