Before Lincoln turned the idea of “the Union” into a cause worth dying for, he tried other means of ending slavery in America ...

Henry Wirz remains one of the most controversial figures of the Civil War. As commandant of Andersonville Prison, he oversaw a site where over 13,000 Union soldiers died. Convicted of war crimes and ...

History: Florida paid dearly for its role in the Civil War, winding up both broken and broke for years afterward ...

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Charles H. Walker's family is committed to preserving and sharing his diary, which has entries from September 1861 through ...

To gain deeper insight, Moore, along with the project’s USCT Ancestry Committee and Virginia Tech students, collaborated with the National Archives and the African American Civil War Museum in ...

The United States once cheered the creation of South ... Sudanese could be returned to a nation again on the brink of civil war or unable to seek the U.S. as a haven. About the Spec ...

A piece of American history has been unearthed at the Liberia House, one of the most historically significant sites in ...

The Civil War Memorial Committee is working to remember local veterans who fought for the union on the 160th anniversary of the end of the war.