2 Union soldiers receive posthumous Medal of Honor for daring Civil War train theft 01:55. For several decades, the cremated remains of more than two dozen American Civil War veterans languished ...

Civil War Reenactors Aren’t Just Play-Acting. ... Men sat around a campfire smoking pipes and watching a spit pig roast over the ... The soldiers were in complete agreement that war was coming.

The remains of 28 Civil War veterans and many of their wives are receiving burial services across the country. As first reported by the Associated Press, their discovery concludes a decades-long ...

Civil War remains found at Colonial Williamsburg, archaeologists say. Virginia archaeologists recently came across four skeletons dating back to the Battle of Williamsburg, which was fought in 1862.

The search for remains of formerly enslaved Black Union soldiers brutally murdered by angry Southerners as the Civil War was ending. Learn about Camp Nelson, KY, the military base where these ...

Even though the Civil War has been thoroughly studied for over 160 years, new discoveries are still being made. Last spring, a Civil War-era cannonball was found in the backyard of a Virginia home.

Retropolis Transgender soldiers date to the Civil War. As the new administration tries to ban certain people from the military, a history lesson may show us which Americans are battle-tested.

Legacy of Black Civil War soldiers honored at Camp William Penn Museum 03:17. As the nation prepares to celebrate Juneteenth, the legacy of thousands of Black Civil War soldiers who once trained ...

The Militia Act, passed by Congress in 1862, allowed free Black men and formerly enslaved men to fight for the U.S. during the Civil War. These soldiers, part of the U.S. Colored Troops, made up ...

Panel members discussed the daily lives of Civil War soldiers. Mr. Rosen talked about his book [The Jewish Confederates], published by University of South Carolina Press. Mr. Groce talked about ...

The soldiers were in complete agreement that war was coming. Not in a few minutes, in reenactment, but in real life, in America, and in my lifetime. What the men could not agree on was the cause.