Members of the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War arrived Saturday at Pioneer Cemetery on a muggy morning that had yet to hit the sweltering high temperatures of the later day and got to work. In ...

Classes were suspended for most of the Civil War but that didn't mean the Knoxville campus went unused. Troops from both sides occupied it at times.

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 ...

The Friends of the Vicksburg National Military Park and Campaign wasted no time beginning work to restore a “historic” ...

A group that works to publicize and remember an infamous chapter in Elmira's history — a Civil War prison camp where thousands of Confederate soldiers died — is kicking off a fundraising campaign to ...

When County, Illinois, was established formally by law in 1831, the United States was developing a spirit of vigorous expansion. It was the era of the “Common Man,” the time of Jacksonian Democracy.

In the aftermath of two tragic wars perpetrated and rationalized on the socially constructed notion of “race” and racial ...

‘Lincoln’s Lady Spymaster’ Review: An Agent of Society Elizabeth Van Lew of Richmond, Va., was a Southern belle with Northern sympathies. She secretly aided the Union war effort.

Union Army veteran Henry H. Pope survived the Civil War only to be murdered in its tragic aftermath.

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During the Civil War, soldiers didn't have the same kind of access to quality rations that troops do today. Back then, they ...

For generations, Cleveland residents glancing at a Bavarian-style brick structure while driving on Linden Avenue have ...