But for reasons unknown, up to 7 feet of riverbed has been scoured away, excavating parts of the 130-foot-long ship not seen ...

Andersonville Prison, Georgia Captain Henry Wirz thought he was just running another Confederate prison camp. Instead, he became the only Civil War soldier executed for war crimes. His prison at ...

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

DALLAS (AP) — The origin of the Juneteenth celebrations marking the end of slavery in the U.S. goes back to an order issued as Union troops arrived in Texas at the end of the Civil War. It declared ..

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

Explore the American Civil War's history, causes like slavery and states' rights, key events including Gettysburg and Antietam, and the war's lasting impact on the United States ...

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.

Sweden rebuilds its 'total defense' model, in which every inhabitant must be prepared 'Europeans, war and peace' (1/7). Since the Ukraine invasion, the Scandinavian kingdom has been rebuilding the ...

Black soldiers' struggles for freedom took place on and off the battlefield during the Civil War.

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.

Started by the city's Office of Civil Defense during the war, the teen canteen was initially designed to be a junior police force. Within a few years it had morphed into more of a social club. An ...