On Dec. 16, 1864, what is now known as Minnesota’s “bloodiest” day in the Civil War, took place. This was the taking of Shy’s Hill in the Battle of Nashville, where 302 Minnesota soldiers were killed, ...

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

The Civil War ... to join the Union Army had been rescued from slavery under the leadership of Harriet Ross Tubman...." By the end of the war more than 186,000 black soldiers had joined the ...

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The deadliest conflict in American history, the Civil War, also had some of its worst ... the Confederate states fared much worse than the Union, with a mortality rate more than twice as high.

In the annals of Minnesota’s participation in the Civil ... gap in the Union line on July 2, 1863, the Minnesotans helped turn the tide of that battle, and in fact, the entire war.

A 2014 satellite photo of the Sivash region shows off the kaleidoscopic colors of a series of shallow, hypersaline lagoons — ...

By Lovia Gyarkye Arts & Culture Critic Halfway through Alex Garland’s Civil War, a troupe of war correspondents come ... But ...

A San Francisco Navy lab used radiation on humans who didn’t know enough about the risks to offer informed consent.

The president’s humble speech, delivered on this day in 1863, was filled with profound reverence for the Union’s ideals ... battle of the American Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln ...

The Illinois Flag Commission announced the Top 10 finalists for their new state flag design competition Tuesday. According to ...

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