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

The last Civil War veteran buried in Lyon County will be honored in a ceremony later this month at the Marshall Cemetery.

President James Buchanan sent the unarmed ship Star of the West with 200 soldiers and supplies on January 9, 1861. When it ...

Glenn Smeltzer stood with pride in Westmoreland County Courthouse Square on Saturday as he and his son watched a ceremony a ...

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

The SOLDIERS' AND SAILORS' MONUMENT, situated on the southeast quadrant of Cleveland's PUBLIC SQUARE, is the city's major CIVIL WAR memorial. Designed by LEVI T. SCOFIELD, the monument was dedicated ...

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

After the bloodiest war in U.S. history, an enlisted soldier in the Union Army was assigned to recover war dead from Southern battlefields. Brevet Lt.-Col. Edmund B. Whitman mapped out ...

A Plum woman who teaches students about American history learned about her own ties to one of the most significant chapters ...

Memorial Day is set to be observed Monday, May 26. Here's what you need to know about the holiday dating back to the end of ...

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War is boring as hell in “The Damned,” an ... his film painstakingly captures the largely uneventful existence of a small troop of Union Army volunteers somewhere out in the borderlands ...