More than 100 Civil War-era letters written by a Union Army soldier to his wife have been digitized and made available online ...

Members of Lawrence's branch of the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War clean the headstones of Union soldiers on Saturday, July 19, 2025, at Pioneer Cemetery. Members of the Sons of Union ...

NICHOLASVILLE, Ky. (WKYT) - A Union soldier’s grave marker has been missing for decades, but now, thanks to a local organization, a new one has been created in his honor. The soldier from ...

In 1865, two dozen Union soldiers, all formerly enslaved, were ambushed and killed along a road in Kentucky. Archaeologists ...

A Back Mountain soldier killed during the Civil War finally has a memorial marker recognizing his death after more than 160 ...

This weekend, Americans set aside a day to honor the memory of those who sacrificed their lives in defense of their country: Memorial Day. The federal holiday only became official in 1968, but this ...

In Kevin Costner's case, it seems his love for the Civil War era runs in his family genes. The actor, producer and director, whose new film, “Horizon: An American Saga,” comes out June 28, is a ...

President Joe Biden on Wednesday awarded the Medal of Honor for conspicuous gallantry to two Union soldiers who stole a locomotive deep in Confederate territory during the Civil War and drove it north ...

In recent times of conflict, it’s common to picture young men in their late teens going off to war. But Samuel Eddy, a Chesterfield blacksmith, was 40 years old when left to fight for the Union in the ...

CHESAPEAKE, Va. — The Chesapeake Sheriff's Office donated two new cemetery markers at the Unknown & Known Afro-Union Civil War Soldiers Memorial. "They had to fight for the right, to fight for the ...

In Kevin Costner's case, it seems his love for the Civil War era runs in his family genes. The actor, producer and director, whose new film, “Horizon: An American Saga,” comes out June 28, is a ...