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 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 ...

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 ...

Drummer boys played a significant role during the Civil War, including relaying ... as its commander, the Army of Northern Virginia successfully rebuffed the Union forces. Forced to retreat ...

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 ...

The American Civil War was arguably one of the most devastating conflicts in the history of the United States. Fought over slavery, it divided families and communities and, of course, the nation.

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