On June 14, 1775, the Continental Congress called for 10 companies of expert riflemen to be organized and sent to Boston to assist the militia facing ...

Archaeologists recently announced the discovery of skeletons at Colonial Williamsburg – but the skeletons weren’t from the Revolutionary War.

Elizabeth Van Lew, a Southern belle turned Union spymaster, exemplifies true heroism during the Civil War, challenging the diluted modern concept of a hero.

CHESAPEAKE, Va. (WAVY) — In Chesapeake, the lives and legacies of Afro Union Civil War soldiers were honored Thursday, making sure that those who served our country are not forgotten. More than ...

What Was the Civil War? Between 1861 and 1865, the Union, or northern states, and the Confederacy, or southern states, fought each other in the American Civil War.

In a first-of-its-kind ceremony in Westmoreland County Monday, dozens honored the final Union Civil War veteran buried in the county, John E. Weigel.

or the start of Memorial Day weekend, the descendants of union officers from the Civil War and more came down to the Topeka Cemetery to commemorate their ancestors.

Groups like Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War worked together to research information on 15 veterans so their graves would no longer be unmarked.

Archaeologists have identified two potential mass graves of Black Union soldiers who were targeted by Confederate guerrillas in the Civil War.

In the podcast, a professor at Asbury University explores the complicated history of a Confederate Civil War monument wearing a Union hat.

The simple copper and cardboard urns gathering dust on shelves only had the name of each of the 28 soldiers — but nothing linking them to the Civil War.

THIS FLANNEL-LINED wool coat was most likely worn by former Union officer Eli Lilly, founder of Eli Lilly and Company, during post–Civil War gatherings like Grand Army of The Republic conventions. The ...