It's aimed at educating people about the decisive 1862 battle."In many ways the Civil War was a defining moment for this country but very few people know much about this campaign," said Jim Houghton, ...

This piece of leather may be from an alligator that attacked a soldier during the Civil War, according to Vicksburg National Battlefield Park in Mississippi. National Park Service photo War artifacts ...

War artifacts are typically weapons and uniforms, but occasionally something so strange shows up, that even historians are at a loss. One such oddity — a ragged chunk of leather — is part of the Civil ...

KURE BEACH, N.C. (WTVD) -- Kerry and Patti Belanger's walk on the beach ended with a knock on the door from the bomb squad. The couple set out on a hunt for seashells on Kure Beach and soon discovered ...

My family just came back from a two-week vacation where we visited everything from two national parks to Colonial Williamsburg to the beaches along the Chesapeake Bay. However, the highlight of the ...