The descendants of one Civil War soldier attended the service at Saint Francis Catholic and Pine Grove cemeteries in ...

Approximately 2.4 million soldiers were engaged in the Civil War, with around 1.56 million fighting for the North and an estimated 800,000 for the South (although Confederate records remain ...

He holds a rifled musket at his side. He is a Union soldier in the Civil War. And the only things we know about him are what we can learn from a single photo.

Fifty-two Black veterans of the Civil War are buried at Providence's North Burial Ground. They will be honored June 21 as the ...

Almost 2.4 million soldiers fought in the Civil War – about 1.56 million for the North and probably 800,000 for the South (records for the Confederate are incomplete). Estimates of the total ...

War artifacts are typically weapons and uniforms, but occasionally something so strange shows up, that even historians are at ...

War is hell, Union Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman is famously said to have uttered.* And the food, he might as well have added, was pretty lousy, too. As the nation marks the 150th anniversary of ...

What Civil War soldiers can teach us about how trauma is passed from generation to generation Union soldiers pose during the Siege of Petersburg in Virginia in 1864.

2 Union soldiers receive posthumous Medal of Honor for daring Civil War train theft 01:55. For several decades, the cremated remains of more than two dozen American Civil War veterans languished ...

A Civil War soldier’s 157-year-old identification tag is donated to a museum in Maryland. ... Civil War battlefield museum gets rare Union soldier’s ID tag.

MENANDS — A new headstone for a Civil War soldier was dedicated at Albany Rural Cemetery today. Sgt. William Francis, of the all-black Massachusetts 54th Regiment, died in 1897 and was mostly ...