Researching her family history, Cheryl Wills found she was related to a former slave who served in the Civil War with the ...

Camp Sumter, also known as Andersonville prison, housed 45,000 captured Union soldiers during the Civil War. Conditions at ...

Brave black Civil War soldier Sandy Wills was recently given a heartfelt military burial — after his ...

Federal troops returned the fire. The Civil War had begun. Immediately following the attack, four more states -- Virginia, Arkansas, North Carolina, and Tennessee -- severed their ties with the Union.

O ver a century ago, President Woodrow Wilson established Veterans Day to honor “the heroism of those who died in the country’s service” after the First World War. Wilson proclaimed that the day, ...

The Civil War, an epic nine-episode series by the award-winning documentary filmmaker Ken Burns and produced in conjunction with WETA, Washington, D.C., first aired in September of 1990 to an ...

Free State of Jones, the Civil War thriller starring Matthew McConaughey and Mahershala Ali, was quietly added to Netflix on ...

location and funding for a monument that will be erected on the lawn of the South Carolina State House Sarah Kuta A recent exhibition shows how soldiers sent in votes during the Civil War and ...

The Civil War was a military, cultural, political, and economic milestone in American history. For four years the nation was in a bloody divide that extended from the East Coast to the pioneer West ...

This section displays objects that were used as flags during the Civil War. National Museum of American History Old Glory flag National Museum of American History United States National 34-Star Flag ...

The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, Vol. 51, Issue. 3, p. 409. Civil War Settlers is the first comprehensive analysis of Scandinavian Americans and their participation in the US Civil ...