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.

Milton works at the African American Civil War Museum portraying a soldier from the U.S. Colored Troops. He’s a hardcore reenactor who claims to even like hardtack, that notoriously inedible ration.

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 ...

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 ...

"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 ...

SIOUX CITY -- The Betty Strong Encounter Center will present "A Visit from a Civil War Soldier" with reenactor O.J. Fargo at 2 p.m. Jan. 15. Admission is free; a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...