Archaeologists have discovered a 150-year-old "witch bottle" used to ward off evil spirits in a Civil War-era fort in ...

was "a concentration camp … established by Union soldiers to eradicate the slaves" during the Civil War. Some sources allege that "over 20,000 freed slaves were killed in one year in this ...

In June 1865, Union troops led by General Gordon Granger ... Neither Delaware nor Kentucky ended slavery during the Civil War, so some historians estimate there were still around 65,000 enslaved ...

Nearly 80 years after his death, the last Union Civil War veteran buried in Adams County was honored Sunday during a ceremony ...

In a first-of-its-kind ceremony in Westmoreland County Monday, dozens honored the final Union Civil War veteran buried in the ...

During the Civil War, Charles Henry Quander, a slave at the Hayfield Plantation, provided food to a unit of Union soldiers from Pennsylvania assigned to Camp Vermont. According to the Quander ...

Roving historical plaque dedicated to the “The ‘Battle’ of Adams Hill” that occurred May 9, 1861, during which only one gun ...

Archaeologists have identified two potential mass graves of Black Union soldiers who were targeted by Confederate guerrillas in the Civil War. When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...

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Members of the People’s Organization For Progress will journey to Mercer County to honor Black Civil War Soldiers today, ...