Looking for some activities to add to your Franklin, Tennessee itinerary? There are many activities to choose from, depending ...

According to the National Archives Catalog, 123 battles were fought in Virginia, more than three times the number fought in Tennessee, the state with the second most battles.

Tennessee's history is haunted by tragedy and bloodshed. Here are six places around Nashville to catch a glimpse of the paranormal this Halloween.

A day trip to one of Tennessee's parks near Memphis has historical significance, as the site of one of the most controversial battles of the Civil War.

The Droop Mountain Battlefield became the first West Virginia State Park and part of the Civil War Discovery Trail, now known as Heritage Sites.

Historians, he realized during the Battle of Shiloh in Tennessee in April 1862, would never be able to explain how war felt.

Missouri was a border state during the American Civil War, and Missourians fought on both sides of the war. Battles raged across every corner of the state. In Southeast Missouri, close to the ...

The Civil War was fought in 10,000 places, from Valverde, New Mexico, and Tullahoma, Tennessee, to St. Albans, Vermont, and Fernandina on the Florida coast. More than 3 million Americans fought in ...

Civil War reenactors’ love triangle ends in revenge porn and $10.5 million federal lawsuit Exclusive: Reenactor Lisa Twark, a 54-year-old veterinarian, discovered her reenactor husband was ...

According to Timothy B. Smith, a history lecturer at the University of Tennessee at Martin, the Battle of Shiloh was the first big battle in the American Civil War. “20,000 dead in two days of ...

Several Civil War battles took place in and around Knoxville as a part of the Knoxville Campaign during the fall of 1863. According to Visit Knoxville, the campaign was designed to secure control ...

The Civil War was the bloodiest and most destructive conflict in American history. From the beginning of the war in April 1861 to the end in April 1865, over 620,000 people were killed, about ...