George H. Cramer, German immigrant and Civil War major, helped shape Cape Girardeau as mayor, postmaster and civic leader, ...

The 8th Illinois Cavalry Regiment engaged in the first action of the Battle of Gettysburg, defending Union positions and ...

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 ...

This US state saw some 50% of the nation's Civil War casualties. Now, mass construction of AI data centres is encroaching on ...

Coffee was an important part of a Union soldier’s ration during the Civil War. Each soldier was issued 36 pounds of coffee per year.

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.

Just under a year into the war, Union Army Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant was already making great progress. ... “Why Some Civil War Soldiers Glowed in the Dark.” Mental Floss, 5 Apr. 2012, ...

Memorial Day traces its origins to over 160 years ago, when a grieving country sought to honor the many brave men lost in the Civil War, including Sgt. Joseph Allen Frith.

McLEAN, Va. — Researchers have discovered the remains of two Civil War soldiers buried among a batch of severed limbs on a northern Virginia battlefield. The National Park Service on Wednesday ...

The remains of 28 Civil War veterans and many of their wives are receiving burial services across the country. As first reported by the Associated Press, their discovery concludes a decades-long ...

Built for 10,000 people, Andersonville held more than 45,000 Union soldiers during the 14 months it operated, and 29 percent of them died of starvation and disease before they could be released.