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 ...

Work is being done to preserve an important part of Civil War history. Sign up for our Newsletters The Gettysburg Cyclorama, ...

Gets a Close Look The battle that turned the Civil War was won by volunteers as well as professional soldiers. On the afternoon of July 2, 1863, Colonel Harrison Jeffords of the 4th Michigan ...

The Civil War ... July 22, 1862, Lincoln showed a draft of the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation to his cabinet. It proposed to emancipate the slaves in all rebel areas on January 1, 1863.

However, these staggering numbers still offer profound insight into the immense tragedy experienced by the American people throughout the Civil War.

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

Battle of Stone’s River begins (Tennessee). The Confederates at Murfreesboro, Tenn., waited for an assault from Maj. Gen. William S.

In an era when the American Civil War dominated headlines, an English sheep farmer in New Zealand penned a letter that would prove remarkably prophetic. On June 13, 1863, The Press newspaper of ...

How brilliant a military leader are you? One of the most important battles of the U.S. Civil War -- and indeed of all U.S. history -- was the battle of Gettysburg. During the three days of July 1 ...

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 ...

Minnesota Gov. Alexander Ramsey answered President Abraham Lincoln’s initial call for volunteer Union troops at the outset of the American Civil War with an offer of 1,000 Minnesota ...