Miller described his determination to avoid becoming a prisoner of war. With a lop-sided walk and a water-filled canteen, he left the hospital tent "without being noticed." ...

Civil War canteens were made by soldering together two hemispheres of extremely thin, tin-plated iron. These often began to leak after being battered around on the march.

For civil war participants in river, canal, and coastal communities, the ocean and inland waterways could be used for movement, communications, supplies, and refuge as local circumstances dictated.

Enter the teen canteen. Canteens were a common site for soldiers and sailors in most cities — a place to dance, eat and forget for just a few hours that the war was but an ocean away.

The custom of celebrating Memorial Day began in the aftermath of the bloodiest war the New World has ever seen. The holiday began as “Decoration Day,” a day to visit the graves of the nearly ...

Civil War relics found as Mississippi River water levels drop A drought has caused water levels to reach record lows.

Contemporary health providers stand-in as Civil War surgeons during a re-enactment at the Spangler Barn in Gettysburg, Pa., ...

Set in the Deep South just after the war, “The Sweetness of Water,” by Nathan Harris, includes death and violence. But its plotlines suggest a vision of race and sexual relations rarely ...

This ambitious thriller comes across as an empty stunt — a democracy dystopia that sidesteps the politics of the present moment. But Kirsten Dunst is excellent as a battle scarred photojournalist.

A poignant example is from Washington, D.C. where north of the White House there are water pipes in the ground that were installed before the Civil War, according to George Hawkins, general ...

This story was written by my mother, Hilary Burges, a Civil Defence Ambulance Driver, just after the trip she described when she and a colleague took a mobile canteen to Exeter and Bath to provide ...