The military records show that Melvin Bean, Samuel Blalock, John Burns, Albert D.J. Cashier, Lyons Wakeman and Frank Thompson fought on American battlefields during the Civil War. Research shows ...

Retropolis Transgender soldiers date to the Civil War. As the new administration tries to ban certain people from the military, a history lesson may show us which Americans are battle-tested.

Civil War remains found at Colonial Williamsburg, archaeologists say. Virginia archaeologists recently came across four skeletons dating back to the Battle of Williamsburg, which was fought in 1862.

2 Union soldiers receive posthumous Medal of Honor for daring Civil War train theft 01:55. For several decades, the cremated remains of more than two dozen American Civil War veterans languished ...

Civil War Reenactors Aren’t Just Play-Acting. ... Men sat around a campfire smoking pipes and watching a spit pig roast over the ... The soldiers were in complete agreement that war was coming.

Panel members discussed the daily lives of Civil War soldiers. Mr. Rosen talked about his book [The Jewish Confederates], published by University of South Carolina Press. Mr. Groce talked about ...

The Militia Act, passed by Congress in 1862, allowed free Black men and formerly enslaved men to fight for the U.S. during the Civil War. These soldiers, part of the U.S. Colored Troops, made up ...

Even though the Civil War has been thoroughly studied for over 160 years, new discoveries are still being made. Last spring, a Civil War-era cannonball was found in the backyard of a Virginia home.

The remains of 28 Civil War veterans and many of their wives are receiving burial services across the country. As first reported by the Associated Press, their discovery concludes a decades-long ...

The search for remains of formerly enslaved Black Union soldiers brutally murdered by angry Southerners as the Civil War was ending. Learn about Camp Nelson, KY, the military base where these ...

Handy was a formerly enslaved Louisianan serving at Port Hudson, a fort Black Civil War soldiers famously assaulted in May 1863. However, Handy did not become a celebrated warrior.