American women would not be welcome as full-time military members until 1948, but those who really, really wanted to fight ...

Orange Park's Don Hillhouse, a "serious amateur" history researcher, scoured the National Archives for records of Union ...

On April 12, 1861, the cannons rang out over Fort Sumter, S.C., as the United States of America was on the brink of war. Over the next five years, more than 620,000 soldiers – Union and ...

The Civil-War was the deadliest conflict in American history, and of the regiments assembled to preserve the Union, none suffered ... 5th New Hampshire Volunteer Infantry Regiment.

The Battle of Cold Harbor was the Confederacy’s last major Civil War victory. Does it offer any insight into the mysterious ...

Wiegel — the last Union Civil War veteran to be buried in Westmoreland ... Wiegel served in the Civil War with the 189th Ohio volunteer infantry before moving to Irwin. He lived in the borough ...

The Emancipation Proclamation, issued on January 1, 1863, specifically called upon freed slaves to enlist in the Union cause ... Two years into the Civil War, black soldiers prepared for battle.