The 8th Illinois Cavalry Regiment engaged in the first action of the Battle of Gettysburg, defending Union positions and ...

American military reliance on cavalry peaked during the Civil War. There were more than 1 million cavalry troops between Union and Confederate forces, accounting for nearly one-in-every-five ...

With a chorus of rebel yells and the firing of pistols, more than 600 Confederate cavalry came swooping into New Windsor on July 9, 1864. The troop included 135 men from the 1st and 2nd Maryland ...

KENTUCKY (FOX 56) — In the bitter winter of December 1861, a Confederate cavalry commander concocted a plan to strike a major blow against the Union forces in Kentucky. Little did he know how ...

In the late summer of 1865, a few months after Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered to Union forces at Appomattox Court House, Representative Thaddeus Stevens received a surprising but ...

The remains of four Confederate soldiers, uncovered last year during archaeological excavations near the Powder Magazine in Colonial Williamsburg, will be reburied in the city’s Cedar Grove ...

WOODSTOCK, Va. – A Virginia school board voted Friday to restore the names of Confederate military leaders to a high school and an elementary school, four years after the names were removed amid ...

Turner Ashby was a Confederate cavalry officer who was killed in battle in 1862 near Harrisonburg, Virginia. A high school near Harrisonburg is also named for him.