These forgotten weapons are landmines we’re found metal detecting and used in the American Civil War and are a rare part of ...

Women presenting as men — whether to escape the stifling construct of feminine life or to stay close to husbands or brothers ...

The Republican party had run on an anti-slavery platform, and many southerners felt that there was no longer a place for them in the Union ... Civil War ended with the surrender of the Confederate ...

Vintage illustration features the Battle of Chickamauga, an American Civil War battle fought on September 18 – 20, 1863, between the U.S. Army of the Cumberland and the Confederate Army of Tennessee.

"Incidents of the war ... Civil War 7 million — Number of Americans lost if 2.5% of the population died in war today 2.1 million — Number of Northerners mobilized to fight for the Union army ...

Harriet Tubman was barely 5 feet tall and didn’t have a dime to her name. What she did have was a deep faith and powerful ...

George Pickett intended to pierce the Union ... of the Civil War. The fate of the nation literally hung in the balance that summer of 1863, when Gen. Robert E. Lee, commanding the "Army of ...

Despite their heroism, they were again barred from service until the Civil War, when the Emancipation ... became the first Black American general officer in the U.S. Army. Davis entered military ...

The origin of the highest military decoration dates back to the American Civil War ... Parrott continued to serve in the Union Army for the remainder of the war, earning a commission and rising ...

Hearing about the different diseases that affected soldiers during the Civil War. Learning how women nursed the wounded and sick. As part of the weekend event, Dr. Trevor Steinbach will present the ...

Penn Township resident Bill Bray has made it his mission to ensure the Civil War veterans buried in Westmoreland County are ...