The remains of four Confederate soldiers were uncovered last year during archaeological excavations near the Powder Magazine.

Two months before the Civil War ended, a Confederate soldier was tried in a New York City courtroom for espionage—and for ...

By the end of the war more than 186,000 black soldiers had joined the Union army; 93,000 from the Confederate states, 40,000 from the border slave states, and 53,000 from the free states.

The Civil War is well known for great battles, famous generals and large casualties. But there was a lesser known side of the ...

Fifty-five years of living in the Southeast during which we enjoyed lots of travel resulted in visiting most of the National ...

Fort McAllister State Park will continue a decades-long tradition of hosting a reenactment of its capture by Union General ...

One of those Confederate monuments still stands ... Virginia Tech student Olivia Adkins discovered that one of the soldiers was “leased” to the Union Army. His enslaver in Pennsylvania ...

Union soldiers can be seen walking outside a recruiting station in the image's bottom right corner. Public domain via Wikimedia Two months before the Civil War ended, a Confederate soldier was ...

But 160 years ago on Dec. 13, 1864, as part of Gen. William T. Sherman’s “March to the Sea” campaign, Union soldiers captured ...