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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

They made some small talk before Lee asked on what terms Grant would “receive the surrender of my army ... ever fought on American soil was coming to an end. The Civil War was entering ...

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 ...

I never would have guessed who was coming to dinner, save for a chance meeting with a distinguished gentleman at The Second Time Around Shop. As I was browsing through the store’s extensive art ...

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