On the evening of September 17, 1862, in the aftermath of the Battle of Antietam, Private Franklin Thompson of the Second Michigan Infantry Regiment walked among the wounded, the dying and the dead.

In 1897, Edmonds was admitted to the Grand Army of the Republic, a Civil War veteran association, becoming its only female member. The following September, she died at her home in La Porte, Texas ...

Feb. 25—Fourth-grade teacher Karissa Prewitt puts on a Civil War-era hospital steward coat while standing before her class at Peterson Elementary in Kalispell. It's an ode to the completion of ...

Civil War reenactor Gerald Drake, 63, of Winchester, Virginia, pleaded guilty Tuesday to charges alleging he planted a pipe bomb on a Harrisonburg battlefield.

Civil War Army nurse Caroline Burghardt and her gravesite in Arlington National Cemetery. (Department of Defense) A 2024 DoD News article from writer Katie Lange told the story of 23 female nurses ...

Elizabeth Van Lew, a Southern belle turned Union spymaster, exemplifies true heroism during the Civil War, challenging the diluted modern concept of a hero.

Reenactor O.J. Fargo will present the program “Just Before the Battle, Mother — A Visit from a Civil War Soldier" at 6:30 p.m. Thursday at the Dakins Community Center, 105 E. Main St., Zearing ...

American Civil War soldier Daniel Walterhouse was wounded in 1862 when he was stabbed with a sword in a battle. He then spent ...

Libertyville’s Ansel Brainerd Cook Chapter, National Society Daughters of the American Revolution, first met the McGlades at a book signing hosted by the village of Wadsworth. Diana Dretske ...

Thursday’s burial marked the first time a Civil War veteran has been laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery since 2018. Bender received Hart’s burial flag on behalf of her family, and she ...

Performer and historian O.J. Fargo will present “Just Before the Battle, Mother — A Visit from a Civil War Soldier” at the Dakins Community Center, 105 E. Main St. in Zearing. The program will begin ...

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine put the country’s female soldiers in the spotlight, where many have stepped up and enhanced their role in a military formerly seen as “no place for women.” But ...