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

MARIETTA — A memoir by John C. Reed, a Civil War line officer in the 8th Georgia Infantry who recorded his first-hand account of Gen. Robert E. Lee’s Army of ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — A long-lost Confederate flag, captured at the Battle of Gettysburg and among the rarest Civil War artifacts, will be a top lot for bidders at an Ohio auction house this ...

Army Pvt. Philip G. Shadrach and Pvt. George D. Wilson will posthumously receive the Medal of Honor for the raid sometimes dubbed 'one of the earliest special operations missions.' The two were on ...

Fort Moore, a Georgia U.S. Army installation, will revert back to its old name, Fort Benning, on the orders of Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth.

On April 12, 1862, a group of Union soldiers from Ohio regiments stole a locomotive in Georgia and rode it north, destroying track and telegraph lines in their wake. The plan, masterminded by ...

Theresa Chandler, the great-great-granddaughter of Civil War soldier Pvt. George Wilson, speaks at a media event on July 2, 2024, ahead of a Medal of Honor award presentation.

Fort Benning was established in 1918 near Columbus, Georgia. It was named for Henry Lewis Benning, a Columbus native. In the pre-Civil War South, he was a lawyer, judge and politician who opposed ...

Two U.S. soldiers, executed 162 years ago for their role in a daring Civil War mission to hijack a locomotive and sabotage a rail line vital to the Confederacy, were recognized Wednesday with the ...

The “Sale Creek Sixty-Five” was a group of 65 Union sympathizers in the Civil War who met in Sale Creek in November 1861 to pledge allegiance to the Union.