or taken prisoner. In total, Maine sent an estimated 70,000 troops to fight in the Civil War, far fewer than more populous states like New York, Pennsylvania, and Ohio. Other Union regiments that ...

Pillow, Tennessee on April 12, 1864 100,000+ — Number of Civil War Union corpses found in the South through a federal reinterment program from 1866-1869 303,356 — Number of Union soldiers who ...

As many as 20% of Civil War soldiers were younger than 18 ... They endured the horrors of Andersonville, a Confederate prison in which thousands of Union men died of starvation and disease.

CAIRO (AP) — The United Nations World Food Programme said Tuesday that an aid worker has died in a Yemeni prison three weeks after his detention by Houthi rebels. The announcement came a day after the ...

The Kankakee Valley Historical Society will share that and other stories of the Northwest Indiana's contribution to the Civil War this weekend. “The Civil War Comes to Northwest Indiana” will take ...