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 ...

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 ...

The 26 Union soldiers were posed for the camera somewhere near Brandy Station, Va., in late 1863 or early 1864. The front rank stood at parade rest, hands clasped around muskets. The rear ranks ...

A Civil War soldier’s 157-year-old identification tag is donated to a museum in Maryland. Accessibility statement Skip to main content Democracy Dies in Darkness ...

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 ...

Gary Carlberg, Commander of the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War Camp 56, speaks during a memorial service for Orson Rodney Pease, the last Civil War veteran buried in Olmsted County ...

CHESAPEAKE, Va. (WAVY) — In Chesapeake, the lives and legacies of Afro Union Civil War soldiers were honored Thursday, making sure that those who served our country are not forgotten. More than ...

Grave markers at Prescott Post in Providence's North Burial Ground, where some 300 Civil War veterans are interred, including 52 Black soldiers and sailors who fought for the Union.

One of the best-documented female soldiers is Sarah Edmonds. She was a Union soldier and worked during the Civil War as a nurse. Bettmann / Corbis Even though women weren’t legally allowed to ...