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 ...

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

War artifacts are typically weapons and uniforms, but occasionally something so strange shows up, that even historians are at ...

Tubman's 1863 raid, which destroyed seven plantations along the Combahee River in South Carolina and freed 756 enslaved ...

Some of the re-enactments included interpreters trying to recruit for the union army and a live march and drill with soldiers ...

SAYBROOK - In the fall of 1862, a Union soldier, delirious with fever, stumbled into the eastern McLean County community of Saybrook. Recognized by no one, he somehow reached the Civil War unknown ...

Fred Minus brought Civil War history to life at Hopewell Valley Central High School, highlighting the experiences of Black ...

A new sign memorializing the service of the 123 enlistees in the United States Colored Troops Union Army from Breckinridge ...

This Saturday at 1 p.m., all local veterans are invited and encouraged to gather in the Pleasant Lake Cemetery as the Sons of Union Veterans of the ...

A downtown monument has been updated with the names of 30 Black soldiers from Jacksonville who fought for the Union.

July 5 has long been a historic day in Carthage, as residents remember an early battle of the Civil War, which happened here on July 5, 1861, but this year the day had a special flavor. It included ...