Approximately 2.4 million soldiers were engaged in the Civil War, with around 1.56 million fighting for the North and an estimated 800,000 for the South (although Confederate records remain ...

He holds a rifled musket at his side. He is a Union soldier in the Civil War. And the only things we know about him are what we can learn from a single photo.

A new collection of primary source documents, "The 1863 Stibbs Family Civil War Era Letters," is the third set of letters ...

Harrison resident Eric Schmitt was well aware of his family’s unique lineage growing up. The 55-year-old is a descendent of ...

Almost 2.4 million soldiers fought in the Civil War – about 1.56 million for the North and probably 800,000 for the South (records for the Confederate are incomplete). Estimates of the total ...

Contemporary health providers stand-in as Civil War surgeons during a re-enactment at the Spangler Barn in Gettysburg, Pa., ...

What Civil War soldiers can teach us about how trauma is passed from generation to generation Union soldiers pose during the Siege of Petersburg in Virginia in 1864.

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 ...

War is hell, Union Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman is famously said to have uttered.* And the food, he might as well have added, was pretty lousy, too. As the nation marks the 150th anniversary of ...

A Civil War soldier’s 157-year-old identification tag is donated to a museum in Maryland. ... Civil War battlefield museum gets rare Union soldier’s ID tag.

MENANDS — A new headstone for a Civil War soldier was dedicated at Albany Rural Cemetery today. Sgt. William Francis, of the all-black Massachusetts 54th Regiment, died in 1897 and was mostly ...