The Union soldiers were driving 900 head of cattle towards Louisville when they were surprised by a Confederate attack where ...

Most Union uniforms—regardless of ranking or unit ... Though most pictures and drawings of Civil War soldiers show well-fitting garments, infantry soldiers often had uniforms that were too ...

The simple copper and cardboard urns gathering dust on shelves only had the name of each of the 28 soldiers ... Civil War veterans, the historical 4th U.S. Infantry Regiment dressed in Union ...

John Leach learned that his great-great grandfather served in the Civil War and was buried without a gravestone, so he did ...

Green Bluff’s Siemers Farm, known for strawberry and fall festivals, transformed into a Civil War battlefield this Memorial ...

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 ... Soldiers in the Civil War ...

Archaeologists have identified two potential mass graves of Black Union soldiers who were targeted by Confederate guerrillas in the Civil War ... despite wearing the uniform of the U.S. Army ...

Now, 160 years later, 70 Black Union military members who fought in the Civil War from 1863 to 1865 will be memorialized in a monument planned for Rocky Mount in Franklin County, Virginia ...

It also awards college scholarships, provides educational resources and works on Civil War-related preservation projects. More than 1,155 Union and 151 Confederate soldiers are buried in the ...