Charles H. Walker settled in Columbia County after the war, and his descendants are committed to preserving and sharing his ...

Uniforms are used for identification as well as to provide a sense of unity during any conflict, and the American Civil War ...

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

Polk fell in battle in 1864. More flamboyant in his faith ... many of the same views as their commanders. The Civil War killed almost 700,000 American lives with many more being wounded, making ...

After the Civil ... war, of a free, black settlement, named for the hated Union, made a dramatic claim to equality and liberty. The passionate man labeled as the “most influential African ...

Proud of her Southern roots and fervently pro-slavery, Rose O'Neal Greenhow wanted to support the Confederacy in any way she ...

A season on the Northern Forest Canoe Trail—stretching from the Adirondacks to northern Maine—reveals fresh possibilities for an ancient route.

They were 10 miles apart, as you could see on that map. FISHBURNE ... GATES: I don't know if you've ever been to the African American Civil War Memorial in D.C. FISHBURNE: I have not.

While the future Canadians were talking unity in 1864 at the famous Charlottetown conference, the neighbouring Americans were in the throes of a civil war ... not follow the American example ...

“Historical landmarks were our pins in the map.” Between scheduled stops ... Knowles says her work has been well received by Civil War scholars. But that’s partly because military historians ...

Long an American Civil War buff, I studied it for several minutes ... He was severely wounded while commanding a brigade during the Battle of Petersburg, in June, 1864, and given what was thought to ...