According to Timothy B. Smith, a history lecturer at the University of Tennessee at Martin, the Battle of Shiloh was the first big battle in the American Civil War. “20,000 dead in two days of ...

Civil War wounds are far from healed. Nation confronts legacy of Franco, killings. By Sudarsan Raghavan. October 28, 2009 at 8:00 p.m. EDT ...

A Civil War Leaves Fresh Wounds. Bid to Save Farm From Developers Divides Family. By Linda Wheeler. November 17, 2002 at 7:00 p.m. EST.

On the 150th anniversary of the start of the Civil War, here's a look at battlefield medicine, including amputations, shell wounds, cracked skulls and other injuries on the battlefield.

An enduring mystery of the Civil War, and perhaps any armed conflict, is how two soldiers, faced with unspeakable battlefield trauma, can diverge so greatly in their ability to cope with life when … ...

An ambush on a Syrian security patrol by gunmen loyal to ousted leader Bashar Assad escalated into clashes that a war monitor estimates have killed more than 1,000 people over ...

Previously found war relics. Relics from the Civil War have been discovered in South Carolina before. In 2016, Hurricane Matthew unearthed Civil War cannonballs from the sand on Folly Beach. A ...

Election Day will be our modern-day “Civil War” as our divided country fights with ballots instead of bullets to set our future course as a democracy. There will be no major historic battles ...