William Piston and John Rutherford discuss General Marmaduke and his Civil War raids Many of us enjoy learning about Civil War history, especially what occurred in the area that we grew up in or live.

For Union soldiers, a cup of coffee made hardtack biscuits more palatable. Heritage Auctions. Ten months into the Civil War, the Union was short on a crucial supply, the absence of which ...

The Civil War was fought in 10,000 places, from Valverde, New Mexico, and Tullahoma, Tennessee, to St. Albans, Vermont, and Fernandina on the Florida coast. More than 3 million Americans fought in ...

As Union General Ulysses S. Grant pushed southward from Tennessee into Oxford, Mississippi, in December 1862, he felt the pressure of the Southern cotton economy closing around him.

On Jan. 25, 1865, a company of Black Union soldiers was ambushed by Confederate guerrillas in Simpsonville, Kentucky. Kentucky was technically neutral during the Civil War, but it was also home to ...

This coming Wednesday, April 9, our great Union of states will officially be celebrating the 160th Anniversary of the official End of the Civil War with General Robert E. Lee’s surrender to ...

BLACKSBURG, Va. (WDBJ) - What’s now known as the Glencoe Museum in Radford used to be the home of Civil War Confederate General Gabriel Wharton. The home was passed down to his family.

BLACKSBURG, Va. (WDBJ/Gray News) - What’s now known as the Glencoe Museum in Radford used to be the home of Civil War Confederate Gen. Gabriel Wharton.The home was passed down to his family, and when ...

When a Civil War general's great-great-granddaughter went rummaging through the attic of their old family home, they could not imagine the remarkable discoveries they would find.

When a Civil War general's great-great-granddaughter went rummaging through the attic of their old family home, they could not imagine the remarkable discoveries they would find.

When a Civil War general's great-great-granddaughter went rummaging through the attic of their old family home, they could not imagine the remarkable discoveries they would find.

BLACKSBURG, Va. (WDBJ/Gray News) - What’s now known as the Glencoe Museum in Radford used to be the home of Civil War Confederate Gen. Gabriel Wharton.The home was passed down to his family, and when ...