Seward had been stabbed in the face and neck with a Bowie knife by another conspirator, Lewis Powell. In a near miraculous ...

April 9, the day that the American Civil War ended in 1865, should be a national holiday celebrating the defeat of the Confederacy, the end of slavery, and the triumph of liberty.

April 9 marks the 160th anniversary of the day America’s Civil War ended when General Lee surrendered to General Grant at the ...

“The American Civil War has an official end date, and that end date is August 1866,” Vorenberg said. Notably, the official ...

When General Wharton’s great-great granddaughter, Sue Bell, and her parents were selling the home in the 1980s and rummaging ...

Collectors also used the event to bring to auction letters, documents, military medals and other archival material. Whyte’s annual Eclectic Collector auction, which ends on Sunday, between 2pm and 6pm ...

The Dodd Center for Human Rights hosted a screening of the 1985 award-winning documentary “Witness to War” about the human rights violations during the civil war in El Salvador on April 1.

At the young age of 29, the Scranton-born soldier succumbed to injuries received in battle. Creeping up on nearly two ...

THOMASVILLE- John B. Gordon 383 UDC invited Meme Hand Greitzer to present a program concerning education in Thomasville ...

The Devil's Punchbowl in Natchez, Mississippi, was a Civil War-era death camp. After the Civil War millions of freed Black ...

In August, Austin, the son of David and Elizabeth Ingall of Temperance, learned he was one of just 10 U.S. students selected for the annual Youth Leadership Team by the American Battlefield Trust.

The Sheldon Prairie Museum has many different collections -- in fact, about half the basement is dedicated to military ...