The men were among a team of Union troops and spies who carried out an audacious, but ultimately failed, mission known as the Great Locomotive Chase. Two U.S. soldiers, executed 162 years ago for ...

The US has imposed sanctions on a network it says is recruiting former Colombian soldiers and training individuals to fight ...

The gear carried by American soldiers in WWII looks nothing like what their Civil War ancestors hauled into battle — yet some ...

In "Y Bridge City," according to local historian Norris F. Schneider, 3,850 men from Muskingum County served in the Army or Navy during the Civil War from 1861 to 1865. Of those, 596 died from either ...

SEATTLE — For several decades, the cremated remains of more than two dozen American Civil War veterans languished in storage facilities at a funeral home and cemetery in Seattle. The simple copper and ...

CHESAPEAKE, Va. (WAVY) — In Chesapeake, the lives and legacies of Afro Union Civil War soldiers were honored Thursday, making sure that those who served our country are not forgotten. More than ...

FORECAST COMING UP FOR US IN JUST A MOMENT. WELL, TODAY A PIECE OF CIVIL WAR HISTORY CAME TO LIFE IN THE HEART OF THE CAPITAL CITY. RE-ENACTORS WITH BUFFALO SOLDIERS, FLORIDA INCORPORATED ARE TOURING ...

The legislative process in Lansing has been slow to recognize the contributions of Native American soldiers from the Ci ...

On a farm in Simpsonville, Kentucky, Jake Bryan starts each morning the same way his father, grandfather and great-grandfather before him.But the history of the Bryan family farm dates back more than ...

The first Memorial Day observance at the Pennsylvania Soldiers' and Sailors' Home in Erie on May 30, 1887, was "impressive in the extreme," according to the Erie Morning Dispatch. The home had been ...

For the first two years of the American Civil War, supporters of the North seemed to hear almost solely about battle victories by the South. “You have to imagine how terrified people became when the ...

The Militia Act, passed by the United States Congress in 1862, allowed enslaved men to fight for their country during the Civil War. These soldiers, part of the United States Colored Troops, made up ...