The Colored Orphan Asylum is under siege. A cauldron of resentment, anti-authority, and racial tensions rise as the city ...

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

While metal detecting near the Battle of Port Hudson, we began uncovering Civil War artifacts that now lead us to believe we ...

The Lancaster Cemetery, with grave markers dating back to the American Revolution, has partnered with the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War ... funeral on July 4, 1863, in Lancaster was ...

AN Work is being done to preserve an important part of Civil War history.The Gettysburg Cyclorama, a painting that depicts Pickett's Charge on July 3, 1863, is nearly 150 years old.Making sure the ...

People often don’t realize the revolutionary nature of the 13th Amendment, and conservatives in particular downplay its revolutionary nature. American historians have for a long time treated the ...

Dave Drake, a 19th-century Edgefield County resident whose pottery is now on display in museums and private collections ...

In Manhattan, during the Draft Riots of July 1863, thousands of poor and desperate ... which forced men to join the Union Army during the Civil War. First, the rioters set fire to the draft ...

The little-known Civil War Battle of Greenleaf Prairie took place on June 16, 1863, near present-day Braggs and extended to ...

During the Civil War, in July 1862 when the Army of the Potomac was in camp, Brig. Gen. Daniel Butterfield summoned Pvt. Oliver Wilcox Norton, his brigade bugler, to his tent. Butterfield, who ...

especially those with an interest in the Civil War. It was here that Confederate troops clashed with Union soldiers for three days in July 1863, resulting in a decisive victory for the North.