American women would not be welcome as full-time military members until 1948, but those who really, really wanted to fight ...

The American Civil War (1861–1865) remains one of the most defining chapters in the nation’s past, forging our modern ...

the American Civil War was a brutal conflict between the anti-slavery Union in the north and the pro-slavery Confederacy in the south. Taking place between 1861 and 1865, it was arguably the first ...

The Battle of Cold Harbor was the Confederacy’s last major Civil War victory. Does it offer any insight into the mysterious ...

U.S. Army assistant surgeon Bernard John Dowling "J.D." Irwin rescued a kidnapped boy and 60 soldiers encircled by legendary Apache warrior Cochise on this day in history, Feb. 13, 1861.

Sixty-four years ago, the Estes Park Trail, predecessor to the Estes Park Trail-Gazette, ran columns highlighting the ...

Courtesy: Library of Congress From 1861 to 1865, the Civil War ravaged ... deaths to Union deaths 9:1 — Ratio of African American Civil War troops who died of disease to those that died on ...

WILMINGTON, N.C. (WECT) - The Bellamy Mansion was built between 1859 and 1861. The mansion was built by free and enslaved ...

The Fourteenth Amendment was the product of a democratic revolutionary change that sought to put the Constitution on a ...