The year: 1861. The problem: Pro-slavery states had broken away from the Union, rising up in armed revolt as the treasonous ...

Seventy Black Union military members who fought in the Civil War will be memorialized in a monument planned for Rocky Mount ...

The fighting of the American Civil War ultimately reached nearly every state in the Northern and Southern territories, with ...

An effort is afoot to tell the story of the 1st South Carolina Volunteers in a six-acre park between Boundary Street and ...

The military records show that Melvin Bean, Samuel Blalock, John Burns, Albert D.J. Cashier, Lyons Wakeman and Frank Thompson fought on American battlefields during the Civil War. Research shows ...

The Defense Department efforts to purge DEI content from its website led to the deletion of a page about Black Civil War hero Sgt. William Carney, who inspired Denzel Washington’s character ...

Ten months into the Civil War, the Union was short on a crucial supply, the absence of which threatened to sap the fighting strength of the Northern army ... to free Black American parents ...

Grant and the Union Army. Born in Ireland ... to the Irish American photographer, Matthew Brady. His photographs captured the raw and haunting realities of the war, documenting the devastation ...

Abraham Lincoln wanted peace, for the war to end. He expressed his desire to "bind up the nation's wounds" in his second ...

The Struggle to End the American Civil War” by Michael Vorenberg. (Knopf via AP) “Lincoln’s Peace” offers a pair of fascinating what ifs. Had the Union maintained a larger and stronger post-Civil War ...