The American Civil War wasn't just a battle between states—it was a showcase of incredible military talent. From 1861 to 1865 ...

The Civil War began when the Confederates bombarded Union soldiers at Fort Sumter, South Carolina on April 12, 1861.

Neither Delaware nor Kentucky ended slavery during the Civil War, so some historians estimate there were still around 65,000 enslaved people in 1865. In December 1865, the end of slavery was ...

This year marks the 160th anniversary of the end of fighting between the Union and Confederate military. A display of the Civil War in 3D is on display at the Johnson-Shaw Stereoscopic Museum, 423 ...

Even as the Civil War raged on, Union soldiers erected monuments to mark where they fought and where the fallen were buried.

Archaeologists have identified two potential mass graves of Black Union soldiers who were targeted by Confederate guerrillas ...

After four years of death and disruption in the Civil War, one might think that everyone would seek peace at all costs at its end in the spring of 1865. But those days coinciding with Easter in ...