One year after the first shots of the Civil War were fired at nearby Fort Sumter, the Planter’s three white officers went ...

Throughout much of the Civil War, a key Union objective ... construction on the morning of December 11, Confederate sharpshooters open fire. Union artillery at Stafford Heights aids the Federals ...

Altoona-based Seed Artillery and Restoration’s Dave ... “We reproduced a very rare Civil War Confederate 12-pounder, field Howitzer,” he said. “There are only a handful of actual surviving ...

With the Combahee River Raid of 1863, Harriet Tubman earned her nickname "Moses" all over again—and became the first woman in ...

A Kentuckian by birth, he'd taught artillery tactics at West Point. Confederate General P.G.T ... But 750,000 Americans would be killed before the Civil War ended in 1865. Four years to the ...

and shot a Confederate colonel. All across the Union, Clem was celebrated as a hero. But Johnny Clem wasn't the only young person to be affected by the Civil War. In fact, it would be hard to find ...

The Army claims it was in honor of his artillery actions during the Mexican-American War but Bragg later quit the U.S. Army and joined the Confederate States of America during the Civil War.

"It was said during the American Civil War that there were more Confederate flags flying here than in Richmond, Virginia — and Richmond was the capital of the Confederacy," Westgaph told CNN.

"It was said during the American Civil War that there were more Confederate flags flying here than in Richmond, Virginia — and Richmond was the capital of the Confederacy," Westgaph told CNN.