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.

Memorial service honors rediscovered Waterville graves of Union soldiers The descendants of one Civil War soldier attended the service at Saint Francis Catholic and Pine Grove cemeteries in ...

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

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

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 ...

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.

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

The Civil War is well known for great battles, famous generals and large casualties. But there was a lesser known side of the ...

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On the steps of the SC Statehouse sits a statue of George Washington, with a broken walking stick. How it broke, however, is ...