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.

"Comrades Mine: Emma Edmonds of the Union Army," is a story of Flint's Sarah Emma Edmonds, who posed as a man to serve in the Union Army during Civil War. The play, written by Chicago playwright ...

The one-room house is small and unprepossessing. With its shuttered windows and the multiple padlocks that used to be inside its door, it's secretive, too -- much like the person ...

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 ...

The Civil War changed the social, economic, and political landscape for women from every walk of American life—perhaps nowhere more so than in the field of nursing.

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

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 ...