Christened the USS Fanny and pressed into service, the plucky boat established a solid war record by transporting troops in August 1861 during the first amphibious operation of the Civil War.

During the Civil War, typical voting processes were replicated on battlefields of 14 states. Six additional states allowed soldiers to mail their ballots home. In this illustration, Union soldiers ...

We followed a 160-year-old Civil War map straight into the past—armed with metal detectors and a deep respect for history. Each beep brought us closer to uncovering relics left behind by ...

BLACKSBURG, Va. — Kurt Luther is linking today’s computer science to the technology of the 1860s. The Virginia Tech computer science professor is the creator of the Civil War Photo Sleuth, a ...

The Civil War marked an inflection point in U.S. history like no other. Fought less than a century after the country won independence from Great Britain, the war pitted free, federalist states in ...

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 ...

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.

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.

More than 17,000 of them fought for the Union in the Civil War, including more than 5,500 Black soldiers, designated by the U.S. War Department in 1863 as United States Colored Troops.