and so far were able to fight the Union Army. One solution: Balloons. Yes, balloons. And bizarrely, it was tried and kind of worked. Back in the American Civil War, the American military founded ...

In Washington, D.C., Army engineers-built aqueducts, bridges, and public buildings. In 1853, Lt. Montgomery C. Meigs, future Quartermaster General for the Union Army during the Civil War ...

In April 1861, just three days after the Confederate attack on Fort Sumter, President Abraham Lincoln called for 75,000 volunteers to fill the ranks of the Union Army and end the rebellion in the ...

One of the names that was a semi-finalist was Edward S. Bragg, a Union Army officer in the Civil War who also served in the U.S. House of Representatives and eventually became a diplomat.

General John Logan had decades of military experience when he gave the order that set the stage for the creation of Memorial ...

One man survived being shot thanks to his pocket watch - which he kept until his death - and another deserted the Confederate Army and joined the Union forces. "It was something, just the finality ...

On this Memorial Day, some veterans were honored with banners in Manchester recognizing their years of service in our ...

While it's true that Natchez was the site of Union Army work camps that housed freed slaves — often under dangerously overcrowded and unsanitary conditions — they were built as refugee ...

Edward Otho C. Ord was a major general in the Union army during the Civil War and commanded the Department of Arkansas and the Fourth Military District during Reconstruction. Ord was born in ...