Gen. Christopher T. Donahue, commanding general of U.S. Army Europe and Africa, led Memorial Day tributes Sunday at the Somme ...

Re-enactors opened the Fort D Historic Site for Memorial Day weekend. From May 24-26, the Fort is available for tours and re-enactors will fire the historic Woodruff cannon. The Woodruff gun is one of ...

Memorial Day began after the Civil War to honor fallen soldiers but has evolved into a summer kickoff marked by travel and ...

The origins of Memorial Day lie in remembering those lost during the Civil War. Established as a national holiday in 1971, ...

The story behind Thomas O’Dea's harrowing drawing of the Confederates' Andersonville Prison in Georgia. Memorial Day events will be held at the site this weekend.

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

The quiet charm of Boalsburg has deep roots in American Civil War history. Tucked in the shadow of Mount Nittany, this small ...

While the Civil War was never fought in California, the state nevertheless played a major role in generating pro-Union ...

McClellan is buried, along with many others from that war and subsequent wars. How so many Civil War veterans killed in battles came ... fifty years since its original settling by Quakers in ...

The original white marble Confederate memorial tablet, located in the church’s north transept, reads: “In memory of the Confederate soldiers who fell in the Battle of Williamsburg, May the 5th ...

Historian and battlefield ... meeting of the Civil War Round Table of the Mid-Ohio Valley at 7 p.m. March 20 at the Blennerhassett Museum of Regional History in Parkersburg. (Photo Provided) ...

In a unique listing by Sites Realty Inc., the Baladerry Inn, a large estate that once served as a Civil War field hospital near the Gettysburg Battlefield ... The original home was built in ...