It would be the U.S. Navy’s biggest defeat until World War II and threatened to change the balance of power in American ...

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

One hundred fifty years ago, about 80 miles southeast of Litchfield in Mankato, Minn., a tragedy unfolded. The war that started with a few scattered attacks across Meeker County in August 1862, ...

During the Civil War, Confederates targeted free Black people in the North, kidnapping them to sell into slavery. After the ...

But he feared the Civil War would shatter his beloved nation ... on a list of wounded soldiers in the newspapers in December 1862, Walt hurried south to find his brother. Whitman was relieved ...

The year 1862 opened inauspiciously for Union and Confederate forces facing each other in ... Refugee life in the second year of the Civil War was laborious for Judith Brockenbrough McGuire, her ...

Courtesy: Library of Congress From 1861 to 1865, the Civil War ravaged America ... a local farmer's well on a federal burial detail in 1862 1,733 — Approximate number of American battlefield ...

During the Civil War, Confederates targeted free Black people ... announced on this day in 1862, was immensely controversial and hounded him for years Eli Wizevich The decline of the American ...

Brian Pease was in his element as he stood at the front of the Grand Army of the Republic Hall and led a Civil War Roundtable discussion in August. It wasn’t just because his presentation ...

In Les Damnés, Roberto Minervini plunges into the heart of the winter of 1862, where American soldiers in the midst of the American Civil War question the meaning of their mission in uncharted lands.

Shiloh National Military Park in Tennessee was the site of a bloody Civil War battle to control the Confederate Railroads. Shiloh National Military Park encompasses much of the April 1862 Civil ...